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Though I'm not so sure about the 5th largest producer in the world. That's expected to take 3 years - needed to build both the wind farms and the transmission lines for new generation to get on the grid. RENEWABLE ENERGY: New power lines will make Texas the world's 5th-largest wind power producer -- Tuesday, February 25, 2014 -- www.eenews.netOn Wednesday, March 27th, the largest state in the contiguous United States got almost one-third of its electricity by harnessing the wind. According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the bulk of the Lone Star State’s power grid, a record-breaking 10,296 MW of electricity was whipped up by wind turbines. That’s enough to provide 29 percent of the state’s power, and to keep the lights on in over 5 million homes.
I suspect that the burgeoning wind power installations around the world might overtake that ambition, though they'll certainly finish up in the top ten - at least for a while.