How does wind power help the environment?
Electricity produced from wind is clean, renewable, and inexhaustible. No fuel is burned or used up to produce wind power. Wind power displaces power produced from oil, natural gas or coal and avoids the environmental impact of drilling, mining, transporting and burning non-renewable fuels. It also reduces your carbon footprint; electricity accounts for about 25 to 40% of your footprint in this region. It also reduces your carbon footprint in this region; electricity accounts for about 25 to 40 % of your footprint. Since WGES procures from from regional wind farms, you are also helping to clean up the air.
