Wind Energy Factoids 1

February 27th, 2009 at 12:01pm Bob Trojan

At the recent Wind Energy Initiative, some interesting facts were presented, here are a few:

20 Turbines per day were installed in Europe during 2008.

The U.S. leads the world in installed capacity of wind energy, but only 1.5% of electricity is produced from it.

Denmark, while a much smaller country, has 20% of its electricity produced from wind.

During 2008, the U.S. increased its capacity of wind energy production by 50% and added 35,000 new jobs.

Here is a recent press release from the American Wind Energy Association that explains some of the current market and capacity trends…  AWEA

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