Why coastal New England is good for wind

Posted on 20 August 2015 by ecoquant

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By the way, this “sigma.995” says the wind speeds are for where the atmospheric pressure is 0.995 of Sea Level atmospheric pressure.

Compare with Texas. And see this chart of installed wind capacity:

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