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Wind Industry Deployed 2GW in Big First Quarter

Green Tech Media: The U.S. wind industry installed more than 8 gigawatts in 2015 and again in 2016. Follow that with the strongest first quarter this decade and the industry can lay claim to some consistency, according to the just-released first quarter report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).

This promise of market stability follows a decade of up and down deployments, buffeted by policy makers' changing sentiments.

Hannah Hunt, a senior analyst at AWEA called these recent results "a mark of stability after the passage of the production tax credit" that gives "the wind industry a sense of certainty and ability to engage in long term planning while strengthening domestic supply chains. That's going to help lower the overall cost of wind energy."

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