McClatchy Newspapers: The American Wind Energy Association is expected to release a survey next month that says the US has become the world’s leading wind producer, and that the industry expects rapid growth to continue in places like Texas, the Great Plains and California. The survey calculates that the US wind industry now tops Germany in terms of how much energy is being produced from wind. Germany still has more installed capacity – 22,000 megawatts compared with 17,000 in the US at the end of …