About 36% of all electricity produced in Kansas is from wind — the highest percentage of any U.S. state. Twenty years ago, there was no such thing. kcur
Kansas’ decline is largely due to theand a slow move away from coal powered electricity. That is to say: Kansas produces less carbon dioxide, or CO2, the powerful greenhouse gas that’s released into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels and is a major driver of climate change.U.S. Energy Information Agency, Kansas emitted 58.
Coal plants in Kansas only produced about 20,000 megawatt hours of electricity in 2018, compared to an average of about 35,000 megawatt hours during the 2000s. Just this year, Kansas saw four new wind farms come online, adding enough capacity to power 190,000 homes for a year. Achieving a clean electrical grid will also be key to reducing those emissions, Gupta said, even if it also means another, different shift in the way things are currently done.
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