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> Just a quirk of where the highways run? Yes, most likely. According to this site [1][2][3], Illinois has almost double the wind generation capacity of India
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Just a quirk of where the highways run?
Yes, most likely. According to this site [1][2][3], Illinois has almost double the wind generation capacity of Indiana. The average megawatts per site is almost 50% higher. Neither state holds a candle to Iowa, but again with Iowa most of those turbines aren't visible from an interstate.
EDIT - This wikipedia page [4] shows a list of large wind farms in the US. Sort it by capacity, and you'll see that the turbines you see on I-65 in Indiana are part of two adjacent farms that each are in the top 15 largest in the US and would be the second largest in the US if considered a single project.
[1] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=indiana&tp=all https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=indian...
[2] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=illinois&tp=all https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=illino...
[3] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=iowa&tp=all https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=iowa&t...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_Unit...