Report: Wind Now Supplies Enough Energy for More than 1 Million California Homes

Los Angeles, CA – December 03, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Wind power has grown exponentially in California over the last dozen years, and now supplies enough energy to power 1,188,483 homes, a new report from Environment California Research & Policy Center said today. Last year alone, wind turbines in California averted over 9 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution, the equivalent to removing more than 1.9 million cars from the road.

The report, Turning to the Wind, is timed with what’s become an annual tradition in Congress: waiting until the last minute to renew critical tax incentives for clean energy. The credits, which have helped spur wind power’s growth over the last two decades, expired at the end of last year, and any measure to reinstate them must be adopted before Congress adjourns for the year on December 18.

The report also showed that renewing tax credits for clean energy sources could spur enough wind development by 2020 to avert up to 5.7 million tons of carbon pollution. Nationwide, as much as 104.2 million tons of carbon pollution could be avoided.

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