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Which State Uses the Most Renewable Energy?

iowa wind powerIowa! Wind power actually provided 5% of the state's electricity in 2006.

And 3 years later, the Hawkeye State continues to up the ante, Iowa produces between 15% and 17% of its own electricity from wind power.

The state has provided really good incentives to make this happen. Iowa's biggest utility company, MidAmerica Energy, pays farmers $3,500 a year to rent locations for wind turbines.

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