Wind Power Sails by Natural Gas, Solar in Growth - USA Today

[Bill USA]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2016/07/05/wind-power-breezes-natgas-solar-growth/86177784/

The U.S. wind energy industry is the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the country. But it’s not resting on its laurels, especially in an election year.

Hence the launch of American Wind Action, a group that will promote the benefits of wind energy to the public as voters consider whom to elect for the White House, Congress, state legislatures and other offices where public policy is made.

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That accounted for 41% of the new generating capacity last year, beating natural gas and solar energy, with 30% and 26%, respectively, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The industry also boasted a record for employment, with 88,000 jobs at the beginning of 2016, an increase of 20% in a year.
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[LouisvilleDem]

1. Capacity Factor

It's hard to tell from the article, but I'd be willing to bet that figure does not take into account the fact that wind has a capacity factor of less than 30%. Odds are a good chunk of the new natural gas capacity added was was to cover periods when the wind isn't blowing.

[NNadir]

2. Another report by another journalist who doesn't bother to learn anything at all about the use...

...of data in particular, and science in general. Peak power is a stupid unit of energy, frequently utilized by the so called "renewable energy" industry to obscure it's grotesque and expensive failure.

The fastest growing source of energy in the United States is dangerous natural gas. The entire wind industry, constructed over decades of very stupid and very dangerous wild cheering for it, hasn't even matched 35% of the growth in dangerous natural gas use to generate electricity in the United States.

I note that the use of wind and solar energy has everything to do with the growth of dangerous natural gas, without which it would even more useless than it already is, and it is pretty useless.