US can produce 100% of green energy from 1.6 million wind turbines from GE

 Sahit Muja

US can produce 100% of green energy from 1.6 million wind turbines from GE.

 The US has a huge wind power potential because of its large territory. The potential of offshore wind power in the United States to generate electricity is at least four times as great as the nation's total electric generating capacity from all sources in 2008, finds a new assessment by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  If US targets investments in wind energy  this can create 10 million new jobs in 10 years.

About 1.6 million advanced technology 2.5 series wind turbines from GE can produce 100 per cent of US energy.
The cost for 2.5 MW wind turbine is about 7 Million dollars installed .

The United States has aapproximately 140 million households . Electricity consumption in 2012 is expected  4000 billion Kilowatthours (kWh)  or  4 million gigawatts. Electricity consumption totaled nearly 3856 billion Kilowatthours (kWh) in 2011

 The electricity consumption in U.S. residential house is 33 kilowatthours (kWh) per day, 1000 kWh a month. The United States added more than 6.8 GW in 2011, enough to power almost 2 million American homes, bringing total wind power capacity to almost 47 GW. GE will supply Triventus with 10 wind turbines of STI 2.75-103. A 27.5MW wind farm project  wind farm will generate enough renewable electricity to power the equivalent of 7.500 houses in Sweden

GE’s (NYSE: GE) advanced technology 2.5 series wind turbines have surpassed 2 gigawatts of installed capacity worldwide, enough clean electricity to power approximately 500,000  American households. By the end of the 2012 more than 2,000 GE wind turbines with a 100+ meter rotor will be operating in 15 countries worldwide, including 12 in Europe. Nearly 1,000 of these turbines will be multi-megawatt 2.5 series machines.

The 2.5 technology has been selected for two of the world’s largest wind projects: the 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat wind farm in Oregon, the first use of the 2.5 technology in the United States; and CEZ Romania’s 600-megawatt Fantanele wind farm, Europe’s largest onshore wind project.

An evolutionary product, the 2.5 series includes the 2.3-94, 2.5-88, 2.5-100, 2.75-100 and 2.75-103 models, offering high efficiency and reliability for a broad range of wind conditions. The 2.5 family is built on the proven performance of GE’s 1.5 wind turbine, the most widely deployed machine in the wind industry with more than 16,500 units installed worldwide.
Sahit Muja
President and CEO
Albanian Minerals
New York