How Many Wind Turbines Would It Take To Power Rhode Island?

28/01/2020 0 min
How Many Wind Turbines Would It Take To Power Rhode Island?

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Since the wind isn't always blowing, Rhode Island uses natural gas power plants as a backup, which means that the electricity from wind farms isn't 100% renewable. The best solution would be to store the electricity generated by wind turbines in batteries, but so far these batteries haven't been big enough or cheap enough to use.
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