Why is wind-generated electricity called “green” power?
Wind-generated electricity is called “green” power because wind turbines don’t create toxic pollutants or climate-changing gases as they produce electricity. Wind power is clean and renewable. On the other hand, electric power plants that burn coal, gas and oil emit more air pollution than any other industrial activity, including 70% of the sulfur dioxide and 33% of the nitrogen oxides, both major contributors to acid rain and ozone layer depletion — and 34% of the carbon dioxide, a proven contributor to global climate change. In fact by removing just the coal fired plants from the energy supply mix in Ontario, Canada, has been likened to the equivalent removing every car off of the road . See the OCAA (Ontario Clean Air Association) For example, 100 kilowatts of wind turbines would relieve the electricity grid, replacing some of the electricity generated by fossil-fuel generating stations – preventing the generation of 1 ton of sulfur dioxide, .6 tons of nitrogen oxide, and 200 tons
