Wind Beat Natural Gas As America's Fastest-Growing Source Of Power In 2012 (TRN)

We've talked about why, long term, green energy faces tremendous obstacles in making a substantial market impact it's too expensive, and too far behind fossil fuels' existing infrastructure. But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's wrap up of 2012's electric power trends capacity actually shows green energy -- especially wind -- made some very impressive gains last year. The U.S. installed a total of 10,700 megawatts of wind power capacity last year. That was 23 percent more than natural g...