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An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs.

For the last eight months, researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been scouring the nation for information about who installed distributed wind energy projects.

Distributed wind refers to wind turbine installations that power small utilities, individual homes, businesses, farms or facilities. They sit on the "distribution" side of the power grid to serve on-site or local loads, rather than generating energy for transmission across regions.

The findings, issued in the Distributed Wind Market Report 2024 Edition, led by PNNL, show steady growth. More wind turbines were installed in 2023 than each of the previous two years.

Distributed wind projects received around $12.4 million in funding from state incentives, federal incentives, tax credits and benefits from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Rural Energy for America Program in 2023, more than double compared to each of the previous two years.

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