Kansas is now No. 2 for wind potential,according to new data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Energy. The new study vaulted both Kansas and Texas — the new No. 1 — past former wind-potential leader North Dakota,which fell all the way to No. 6 on the new list. Montana,Nebraska and South Dakota round out the new top five.
The new numbers show that Kansas has the potential to generate 3.6 million gigawatt hours of electricity from wind — roughly equivalent to 10 times the power consumed by the state of California in a year. Kansas’ wind potential was upgraded from earlier estimates of 1 million gigawatt hours.
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