{"id":179259,"date":"2023-12-27T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/in-montana-wind-is-about-to-overtake-coal-generation-capacity"},"modified":"2023-12-27T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T12:22:51","slug":"in-montana-wind-is-about-to-overtake-coal-generation-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/in-montana-wind-is-about-to-overtake-coal-generation-capacity","title":{"rendered":"In Montana, wind is about to overtake coal generation capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-montana-wind-is-about-to-overtake-coal-generation-capacity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When two new Montana wind farms come online, the state will have more nameplate capacity in wind than in coal.<\/p>\n<p>Nameplate capacity is the maximum rated output in megawatts when a source of power operates in optimal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, Montana coal plants provided 1,631 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity in October. In the same period, Montana\u2019s wind capacity provided 1,479 megawatts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two new Montana wind farms come online, the state will have more nameplate capacity in wind than in coal. Nameplate capacity is the maximum rated output in megawatts when a source of power operates in optimal conditions. According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, Montana coal plants provided 1,631 megawatts (MW) of nameplate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}