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U.S. Working Hard to Boost Wind Energy, Adviser Says in Denmark

Peter Levring, January 16, 2018 (Bloomberg News)

“…[The president’s] administration is working ‘quite aggressively’ to increase the use of renewable energy in the U.S. as part of the president’s plans to boost American energy independence, a senior adviser [visiting Denmark to study wind power] said…Denmark is home to the world’s biggest turbine maker, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, and Orsted A/S, the world’s biggest operator of offshore wind parks. The Nordic country set a record last year by obtaining 43.4 percent of its electricity from wind. Its government now wants renewables to cover 50 percent of the country’s total energy consumption by 2030 and to abandon fossil fuels completely by 2050…[The presidential adviser said the] administration was expanding the amount of federal funds available for offshore wind investments and that its choice of energy sources would be dictated by market considerations alone [despite the president’s promise] to bail out U.S. coal producers…[Current U.S. off-shore wind capacity] totals about 30 megawatts. Denmark’s totals 1.3 gigawatts…” click here for more

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