South Dakota's renewable energy resources are quickly expanding beyond hydropower, with wind as frontrunner and solar bringing up the rear.
South Dakota’s renewable energy resources are quickly expanding beyond hydropower, with wind as frontrunner and solar bringing up the rear.The political knives are still out when the topic turns to climate change, but it looks like the energy transition is going to happen anyways. A case in point is the “red” state of South Dakota, which has now amassed enough renewable energy to fulfill its own electricity needs, and then some.South Dakota is no stranger to renewable energy.
by the beginning of this year, totaling 2,300 megawatts of capacity. The latest figure from the American Clean Power Association is even more impressive, topping 3,000 megawatts.“Renewable resources supplied more than four-fifths of the electricity generated in South Dakota in 2021, mostly from wind and hydroelectric power…In 2021, wind energy surpassed hydroelectric power’s contribution to South Dakota’s in-state electricity generation for the first time.
Nevertheless, South Dakota is not stopping at the 120% mark. Earlier this year, the state’s Public Service Commission took note of all the wind farms in operation and added this nugget:
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