The U.S. has produced more than 100 gigawatts of wind energy capacity, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). 

The significant addition of 1,927 megawatts was commissioned during the third quarter of 2019, the highest on record for installation. The report said that the installations “pushed overall capacity above the landmark figure of 100 GW.” CNBC reporting has noted that Texas is the leading state in this latest development, with more than 27 GW of cumulative capacity, which is the “maximum amount that installations can produce, not what they are currently generating.”

This growth trend is anticipated to continue. In 2018, wind produced 273 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, or 6.5% of the total energy produced. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said that changes in annual wind capacity additions in the United States are often related to changes in tax incentives. The U.S. production tax credit (PTC), which provides operators with a tax credit per kilowatthour of renewable electricity generated for the first 10 years a facility is in operation, was initially set to expire for all eligible technologies at the end of 2012 but was later retroactively renewed.

“Wind now supplies clean and efficient power to the equivalent of 32 million American homes, sustains 500 U.S. factories, and delivers more than one billion dollars a year in new revenue to rural communities and states,” AWEA CEO Tom Kiernan said in a statement.