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AWEA, accessed May 31, 2016 In 2019, the capacity increased to 1525 MW. South Dakota is one of the country's windiest states, and has the potential of installing 882,000 MW, and generating 2,902 billion kWh/year. Just as in
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The state of South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large porti ...
is a leader in the U.S.
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in wind power
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generation with over 30% of the state's electricity generation coming from wind in 2017. In 2016, South Dakota had 583 turbines with a total capacity of 977 megawatts
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(MW) of wind generation capacity.South Dakota Fact SheetAWEA, accessed May 31, 2016 In 2019, the capacity increased to 1525 MW. South Dakota is one of the country's windiest states, and has the potential of installing 882,000 MW, and generating 2,902 billion kWh/year. Just as in
Texas
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, the construction of new wind farms is transmission line limited.
History
South Dakota's first wind farm was the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, built in 2003. In 2018, 324-foot wind turbines were installed in South Dakota, with a capacity of 2,300 kilowatts. "As of December 2018, South Dakota had 1,018 megawatts of wind power capacity online and running. Another 200 megawatts of wind energy was under construction, and 673 more megawatts spread across dozens of sites are permitted for production."Summary statistics
List of wind farms in South Dakota
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See also
* Solar power in South Dakota * Renewable energy in South Dakota *Wind power in the United States
Wind power is a branch of the energy industry that has expanded quickly in the United States over the last several years. From January through December 2021, 379.8 terawatt-hours were generated by wind power, or 9.23% of electricity in the ...
*Renewable energy in the United States
According to preliminary data from the US Energy Information Administration, renewable energy accounted for about 12.6% of total primary energy consumption and about 19.8% of the domestically produced electricity in the United States in 202 ...
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