THE ENERGY CHALLENGE 2004 — Wind

Whatever you think you know about wind, especially the negatives, if it was based on data and analysis prior to 2000 you can be pretty sure it’s wrong. Wind has made enormous strides in the last 15 years. In 1992 the average size of installed wind turbine was 200 kW. In 2002 it was 1.4MW. Now almost all units being installed are over 2 MW. Total world installed wind energy in 1992 was 2.5 GW. By 2003 it had reached 40 GW, a CAGR of 30%/yr.
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