{"id":10791,"date":"2017-04-18T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2017-04-18T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:20:51","slug":"americas-wind-energy-boom-may-finally-be-coming-to-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/americas-wind-energy-boom-may-finally-be-coming-to-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America&#8217;s Wind Energy Boom May Finally Be Coming to the Southeast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I mentioned the boom in solar energy that is occurring in the Southeast. \u00a0Here is another article about renewable energy, this time for wind energy. \u00a0While the Southeast traditionally has not been a powerhouse for wind production due to lower average wind speeds, especially in summer high pressure systems, more efficient turbines and careful placement near coasts and on ridges can help improve that. \u00a0Read more about it at <em>InsideClimateNews.org<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/13042017\/wind-energy-amazon-wind-farm-north-carolina-southeast-coal-trump?utm_content=buffer4699d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10800\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/amazonwindfarmeast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10800\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/amazonwindfarmeast-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/amazonwindfarmeast-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/amazonwindfarmeast-180x138.jpg 180w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/amazonwindfarmeast.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East, the first utility-scale wind farm in the U.S. Southeast, began generating electricity in late 2016, supplying power to an electrical grid that serves Amazon\u2019s data centers. Credit: Fisher Associates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I mentioned the boom in solar energy that is occurring in the Southeast. \u00a0Here is another article about renewable energy, this time for wind energy. \u00a0While the Southeast traditionally has not been a powerhouse for wind production due to lower average wind speeds, especially in summer high pressure systems, more efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}