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On the recordJanuary 18, 2016
I want to emphasize a few things. Utility scale wind capacity has grown by 677 percent from less than nine gigawatts to nearly 70 gigawatts in the last ten years.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell highlights significant growth in wind energy capacity over the past decade.

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