Farms: Wind Farms in Southern California

This is a wind farm in Southern California.The use of wind power in the United States has expanded quickly over the last several years. Construction of new wind power generation capacity in the fourth quarter of 2012 totaled 8,380 megawatts (MW) bringing the cumulative installed capacity to 60,007 MW.[1] This capacity is exceeded only by China.[2] For the 12 months from November 2011 to October 2012, the electricity produced from wind power in the United States amounted to 137 terawatt-hours, or 3.4% of all generated electrical energy.[3] The United States produced enough electricity from wind in the 12 month period before November 2012 to power over 11 million US households annually[4] or meet the total energy demands of Poland.[5]