Average US wind turbine capacity and rotor diametre saw significant increases in 2016, while developers continue to deploy taller machines for projects located in lower-quality resource areas, a newly-released Department of Energy (DOE) report shows.

The average rated (nameplate) capacity of recently-installed turbines last year was 2.15MW, up 11% from the average over the previous five years. The US market was dominated by 2-2.5MW