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In the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, wind power is one of the primary sources of renewable energy, and accounts for over one third of the state's renewable energy production. [1] There are more than 27 wind farms currently operating in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Wind power showed potential for replacing natural gas in electricity generation on a cost basis. By 2021 wind energy produced 4872 terawatts-hour, 2.8% of the total primary energy production [51] and 6.6% of the total electricity production. [52] Technological innovations continue to drive new developments in the application of wind power.
The Green Mountain Wind Energy Center was a wind power plant near Garrett, Somerset County, Pennsylvania with eight Nordex 1.3 MW turbines that began commercial operation in May 2000. [1] This was the first commercial wind farm constructed in Pennsylvania. [ 2 ]
Although the banana as an exotic fruit was introduced to the American public in the 1880s, it was later in 1904, that the banana split was invented in the town of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by 23-year-old pharmacy apprentice David Strickler, who was inspired to create a new sundae after seeing a soda jerk during a visit to Atlantic City.
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Power From The Wind. D. Van Nostrand Company. Righter, Robert (1996). Wind energy in America : a history. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2812-7. Harnessing the Wind, September 1941, TIME magazine, retrieved 2009 Nov 21; Engineering and Technology History Wiki, Palmer Putnam's 1.5 MW Wind Turbine, retrieved 2016 Jan 23
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Wind energy penetration is the fraction of energy produced by wind compared with the total generation. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2021 was almost 7%, [ 55 ] up from 3.5% in 2015.