“We have great momentum throughout the wind industry,” he told the opening session at AWEA’s 2016 Windpower Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans.

He said the industry was on track to meet and perhaps surpass AWEA’s 2015 “Wind Vision” for the US to install an average 8GW a year in new power generation capacity up to 2020.

This would double wind’s share of US electricity generation from 5% to 10%.

“That