Breaking WIND: what does 20% by 2030 look like?

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Breaking WIND: what does 20% by 2030 look like?

by Josh Loposer (Subscribe to Josh Loposer's posts)
Jun 5th 2008 @ 9:02AM

Filed under: Alternative Energy, Green by the Numbers

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One of the big buzz phrases at WINDPOWER 2008 is "20 percent by 2030," or "20%" for short. The DOE surprised a lot of us when it announced the 20% news a few weeks ago, and since then tons of manufacturers, researchers, politicians, and NGOs have gotten in the habit of throwing out all sorts off figures as to what that will require. Here's a little recap of what 20% by 2030 will look like:

75,000 new turbines
500,000 new wind industry jobs in the US
19,000 miles of new transmission lines
Over $60B worth of new transmission capacity
Annual payments of $600M to rural landowners by 2030
263GW of new wind energy by 2030
Installing 16GW per year by 2018, 5GW were installed in 2007
A reduction of 825 million lbs of CO2 per year

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