Colorado Electric Generating Capacity 2017

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  • Windpower is Colorado’s largest non-carbon electric power source

  • 2017 rankings - electric energy sources
    54.31% coal combustion
    23.28% natural gas combustion
    17.30% wind turbines



Windpower electric energy annual production:

  • increased 1,076% from 2006 to 2017

  • achieved an annual average growth rate of 24%

EIA graph with Linecurrents edits.

Notes - above graph:
1 gigaWatthour = 1,000 megaWatthours = 1,000,000 kiloWatthours

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions from U.S. Electric Utilities Declined 28% from 2005 to 2017