64% of US States Could Supply 100% of Their Own Power From Renewable Energy, New Rules Project Shows
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Wind has the potential to supply the most states all their own energy now. The surplus could be shipped to other states, once we have big transmission out of state, and storage. But, the study points out:
“If 75 percent of our gasoline were replaced by electricity it would increase electricity consumption by about 20 percent. On the other hand, it would also establish a system of widely distributed and abundant storage that would change the very underpinnings and assumptions of an electricity system designed without storage in mind.”
There’s also off-shore potential:
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