• Domestic energy source
• Inexhaustible supply – U.S. winds could generate more electricity in 15 years than all of Saudi Arabia's oil, without being depleted
• Wind plants consist of small (by utility standards) individual generators which cannot easily be damaged at the same time and which are easy to replace
• If a wind plant is damaged, there is no secondary threat to the public (such as in the release of radioactivity, explosions, or the breaching of a dam)
• Wind is "inflation-proof" – once a wind plant is built, the cost of energy is known, and is not affected by fuel market price volatility
• Wind plants can be built quickly to respond to electricity shortages

Wind provides a steadily growing share of U.S. electricity:

• U.S. wind electric generation has more than quadrupled in the last six years, from enough to serve 650,000 homes in 2000 to enough to serve nearly 3 million today
• In the last five years, wind power has grown at an average annual rate of 22%
• In the last two years, more new wind generating capacity (4,903 MW) was installed than in the industry’s first 20 years (1981-2000)
• In both 2005 and 2006, wind was the second-largest source of new generating capacity in the U.S. (trailing only natural gas)
• European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) now believes 100,000 MW of wind can be installed in Europe by 2010. In the U.S., that much wind capacity could serve 25 million households with 67 million people.