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US red states making fastest progress on clean energy
Their Republican leaders see tapping wind, and to a lesser degree the sun, as an economic strategy
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Wed, Jun 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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TWO years ago, Kansas repealed a law requiring that 20 per cent of the state's electric power come from renewable sources by 2020, seemingly a step backward on energy in a deeply conservative state.
Yet, by the time the law was scrapped, it had become largely irrelevant. Kansas blew past that 20 per cent target in 2014, and last year it generated more than 30 per cent of its power from wind. The state may be the first in the country to hit 50 per cent wind generation in a year or two, unless Iowa gets there first.
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