Energy generated through renewable resources such as wind offer significant economic, social and environmental benefits as follows.

Economic Benefits

Revitalizes Rural Economies:  Wind energy can diversify the economies of rural communities, adding to the tax base and providing new types of income.

Free Fuel: Unlike other forms of electrical generation where fuel is shipped to a processing plant, wind energy generates electricity at the source of fuel. Wind is a native fuel that does not need to be mined or transported, taking two expensive aspects out of long-term energy costs.

Price Stability: The price of electricity from fossil fuels and nuclear power can fluctuate greatly due to highly variable mining and transportation costs. Wind can help buffer these costs because the price of fuel is fixed and free.

Social Benefits

Energy Independence: Wind turbines diversify our energy portfolio and reduce our dependence on foreign fossil fuel. Wind energy is homegrown electricity, and can help control spikes in fossil fuel cost.

No interference: Wind turbines can be installed amid farmland without interfering with people, livestock, or production.  Farmers, Ranchers and most other land owners can continue their usual activities after wind turbines are installed on their property.

Local Ownership: A significant contribution to the worldwide energy mix can be made by small clusters of turbines or even single turbines, operated by local landowners and small businesses. Electricity produced through them, can be used for local consumption.

Environmental Benefits

Wind power delivers multiple environmental benefits.

Green: Wind power operates without emitting any greenhouse gases and has one of the lowest greenhouse gas lifecycle emissions of any power technology.

Clean: Wind power results in no harmful emissions, no extraction of fuel, no radioactive or hazardous wastes and no use of water to steam or cooling.

Less Carbon: Wind projects are developed over large areas, but their carbon footprint is light. Wind Power can deliver zero-emissions electricity in large amounts.

The potential for wind energy is immense, and experts suggest wind power can supply up to 20% of U.S. and world electricity.