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Rock Port, Missouri (pop. 1395) has become the first city in America to be powered 100% by wind energy. The Loess Hill Wind Farm, built entirely within the cozy confines of Rock Port, is now online with four 1.25 megawatt wind turbines, capable of collectively producing 16 gigawatts of electricity annually. Rock Port’s historic consumption of electricity averages around 13 gigawatts, giving the northwest Missouri town a net surplus of 3 gigawatts of electricity which will be sold to the Missouri Public Utility Alliance.
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by learning more about wind energy on the website of the American Wind Energy Association, the trade association of the wind power industry. The AWEA educates the public regarding wind power and lobbies politician to create responsible public policy that further utilizes this clean, sensible technology.
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