CURRENT WIND STATS

• Able to power the equivalent of 7 million homes in the US: 25,170 megawatts installed (March '09)
• Wind farms in 38 states
• Supporting about 85,000 U.S. jobs (March '09)
• Providing just over 1.5% of US electricity today
• Saving emissions by 34 million tons of carbon dioxide annually
• 35,000 U.S. wind jobs added in 2008

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