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For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region’s Power

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  • Grid from Montana to Texas reached 52% wind power on Sunday
  • First U.S. grid operator to get majority of power from wind
Wind turbines in Milford, Iowa, on Sept. 15, 2016.

Wind turbines in Milford, Iowa, on Sept. 15, 2016.

 Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Wind turbines across the Great Plains states produced, for the first time, more than half the region’s electricity Sunday.

The power grid that supplies a corridor stretching from Montana to the Texas Panhandle was getting 52.1 percent of its power from wind at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas-based Southwest Power Pool Inc. said in a statement Monday.