Red States Rank among Renewable Energy Leaders
Kansas is first for increasing its share of renewable energy in electricity and North Dakota leads in wind energy per capita
By Kavya Balaraman, E&E News on April 20, 2017
Wyoming might be in coal country, but it's also leading the country in renewable energy capacity, a new report finds.
Wyoming's expanding wind sector has placed it at the top of a ranking of states' clean energy development by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report found that renewable sources account for all of the new power plant capacity added to the state between 2016 and 2019. Wyoming also leads in terms of renewable energy development per capita.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/red-states-rank-among-renewable-energy-leaders/
