page_title: Wind power in Arizona
section_title: Installed capacity and wind resources
hierarchical_section_title: Wind power in Arizona / Installed capacity and wind resources
caption_attribution_description: English: Average annual wind power distribution for Arizona, 50m height above ground, also showing location of existing electrical transmission lines
context_page_description: As of 2016, Arizona has 268 megawatts of wind powered electricity generating capacity, producing 0.5% of in-state generated electricity.
context_section_description: The following table compares the growth in wind power installed nameplate capacity in megawatts (MW) for Arizona and the entire United States since 2005.
  Arizona has the potential to install up to 10.9 GW of onshore wind power nameplate capacity at 80 meter, 74.4 GW at 110 meter, or 191.0 GW at 140 meter hub height, generating 585 TWh annually. For comparison, Arizona consumed 69.391 TWh of electricity in 2005; the entire U.S. wind power industry was producing at an annual rate of approximately 50 TWh at the end of 2008; Arizona's Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station produced 26.782 TWh in 2007; and Three Gorges Dam (the world's largest electricity-generating station) produced an average of 80 TWh/yr in 2008 and 2009.
caption: Average annual wind power density map for Arizona at 50m above ground
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