Otmane El Rhazi : Reduced offshore share in U.S. oil and natural gas production lowers risk from hurricanes

Otmane El Rhazi from Today in Energy.

The domestic market for distributed wind turbines has weakened since the record capacity additions in 2012. Last year's installations of mid-size and small wind turbines were the lowest in a decade. Relatively low electricity prices, competition from other distributed energy sources, and relatively high permitting and other nonmaterial costs have presented challenges to the distributed wind market in the United States.