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Wind Energy Helps Relieve Natural Gas Shortage.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, July, 2003

June 18, 2003 - Wind energy is already helping to reduce the current natural gas supply shortage in the U.S., and could be deployed rapidly over the next few years to bring it under control, according to an AWEA statement.

The current supply shortage amounts to 3-4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day (Bcf/day), according to energy experts, and the increasing use of gas for electricity generation is one of the major causes of the shortfall. But in many areas of the country where wind farms are generating electricity, they are directly helping to conserve vital natural gas supplies.

"We estimate that the wind farms already in place, and those that will be installed by the end of this year, will be saving about 0.5 Bcf/day in 2004," said AWEA...

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