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Data from World Wind Energy Association, for installed Mega Watts of global wind power capacity in 2007. 19,696 MW of capacity were added in 2007, bringing the total to 93,849 MW. Europe accounts for 61% of installed capacity, Germany accounts for 24% and the USA 18%.
The graph shows the top 10 producers (with the exceptions of Denmark and Portugal) and includes Japan (which is 13th).
Related: USA Wind Power Installed Capacity 1981 to 2005 - Wind Power has the Potential to Produce 20% of Electricity by 2030 - Top 12 Manufacturing Countries in 2007 - Sails for Modern Cargo Ships - MIT’s Energy ‘Manhattan Project’
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October 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The Curious Cat Science and Engineering blog has a graphic representation of global installed wind power capacity (and it’s impressive!)…
October 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
It’s great to see that wind power has really gained in the US over the past 3 years. Hopefully local municipalities will be giving when it comes to allowing citizens to put up windmill systems.
Unfortunately, I have heard from some individuals of local townships not allowing generation systems because they’re “Too Tall” even though they fall far below heights that would interfere with air traffic or anything of the sort.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
“Danish wind turbine manufacture Vestas Wind Systems has chosen Pueblo for what it has said is a nearly $240 million manufacturing plant to build the steel towers needed to hold wind turbines aloft…”
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Wow 20% of electricity by 2030! That’s quite an amazing statistic. Love your blog.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Wind power is not a solution.
The whole truth about wind turbines is never told by lobbyists and governments.
How could the very weak and extremely unreliable initial energy source of a wind turbine ever produce a steady power of any significance?
Please think!
And read: “Wind energy- the whole truth” at: http://www.windenergy-the-truth.com/
And to show how completely irrelevant wind power is in regard to the worldwide energy and climate crisis visit the following link: http://www.bp.com/iframe.do?categoryId=9024179&contentId=7044895
And play around with the charts you see there (The BP charts regarding energy reserves and energy consumption worldwide over the last 20 to 40 years.) and make some calculations. And if you don´t get confused with the zeros, you will get my point.
The resources now poured into futile, but very ingenious and high-tech windmills, could be far better used for, for example:
1) Burning coal in a cleaner way,
2) Efficiency of energy use in the broadest sense of the word
3) Promoting a drastic change of life style (There are about 6.5 billion people, who all have the right to have some energy to their disposal).
Just 3 ideas.
Alexander
March 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
“To extract each barrel of oil from a surface mine, the industry must first cut down the forest, then remove an average of two tons of peat and dirt that lie above the oil sands layer, then two tons of the sand itself…”
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 am
“could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years’ worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size…”
May 5th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Globally 27,339 MW of capacity were added in 2008, bringing the total to 121,188 MW, a 29% increase…