Texas wind generation is up 71% in 5 years
Wind generation provided 10.6% of the electricity used by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for most of the state, in 2014.
Wind’s share of ERCOT generation grew 70.9% from 2009, when only 6.2% of the state’s electricity came from wind. Total electricity generation in Texas increased only 11.3%, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
