Wind Energy Industry Market Report: Third Quarter 2012 Learn key statistics on how much cumulative U.S. wind power capacity there was, and how
many wind power installations there were in July, August and September 2012.
China plans to increase wind and solar power capacity by more than 21 percent and have at least 20 gigawatts of
new wind power installations and 15 gigawatts of additional photovoltaic capacity next year, according to the NEA statement.
A study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory of US wind farms built between 2000 and 2009 found that, on average, only 1.1 percent of the total wind farm area suffered surface disturbance, and only 0.43 percent was permanently disturbed
by wind power installations.
The two - way system could store energy as hydrogen to back up intermittent solar or
wind power installations and even the Solar Eagle, a dragonflylike unmanned aerial vehicle that is to fly multiyear missions.
They are about to over take us since
our wind power installations are about to slow down.
Wind power installations will drop by almost a quarter this year to their lowest level since 2008 because of the policies in these two countries, according to Justin Wu, BNEF's head of wind analysis.
Then with a wry smile, he added: «79 percent of
all wind power installations in the U.S. are in Republican Congressional districts,» such as Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Iowa.
Wind power installations have been doubling every three years between 1994 and 2001, and now total over 23,000 MW.
A new observational analysis using data from 10 European Union countries affirms the rather devastating conclusion that
wind power installation «preserves fossil fuel dependency» because for every 1 % increase in the installed capacity of wind power there is a concomitant ~ 0.25 % increase in the need for more electricity generation from fossil fuels.
The company, which has 22 facilities with solar arrays, three sites using landfill gas, and four that will soon have
wind power installations, has been a leader in the use of renewable energy for over 20 years, saving an estimated total of $ 80 million.
Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), an engineering and consulting firm, produced a report in June 2012 that listed the CO2 abatement from Australia's
wind power installations.
Solar and
wind power installations are currently emerging faster than any other electric power source, growing at worldwide annual rates of 50 per cent and 18 per cent respectively from 2009 - 2014.