Question

amount of additional electricity wind turbines could generate when winds were stronger than forecast. electric companies that use wind turbines rely on weather forecasts to predict the maximum amount of power, in megawatt - hours (mwh), they can generate using wind so that they can determine how much theyll need to generate from other sources. when winds are stronger than they were forecast to be, however, the predicted maximum amount of electricity wind turbines could generate will be too low. for example, the graph shows that for the west region, the winds were ___. which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example? choose 1 answer: so weak that the electricity from wind turbines was about 175 thousand mwh less than predicted. strong enough to generate about 150 thousand more mwh of electricity from wind turbines. so weak that the electricity from wind turbines was about 150 thousand mwh less than predicted. strong enough to generate about 175 thousand more mwh of electricity from wind turbines.

Explanation:

Step1: Analyze the bar - graph

The bar - graph shows the amount of additional electricity wind turbines could generate when winds were stronger than forecast. The grey bar represents the West region and the black bar represents the Midwest region. The height of the grey bar for the West region is at 150 on the y - axis which represents the amount of additional electricity in thousands of MWh. This means when the winds were stronger than forecast in the West region, wind turbines could generate about 150 thousand more MWh of electricity.

Answer:

B. strong enough to generate about 150 thousand more MWh of electricity from wind turbines.