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Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy
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Location:
1350 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 403, Washington, District of Columbia, 20036, United States
Contact person:
Reah Janise Kauffman
Organization:
Earth Policy Institute
Website:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update37.htm
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Language(s):
English
Media:
Article or paper, Website
Fax:
202.496.9325
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Specialty:
Insurance, Legal Services
Phone:
202.496.9290
Last updated:
April 13, 2004
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Description:
Free on website, includes data.
By Lester Brown
Europe is leading the world into the age of wind energy. In its late 2003 projections, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) shows Europe's wind-generating capacity expanding from 28,400 megawatts in 2003 to 75,000 megawatts in 2010 and 180,000 megawatts in 2020. By 2020, just 16 years from now, wind-generated electricity is projected to satisfy the residential needs of 195 million Europeans, half of the region's population.
Wind-generating capacity worldwide, growing at over 30 percent per year, has jumped from less than 5,000 megawatts in 1995 to 39,000 megawatts in 2003, an increase of nearly eight fold. Among fossil fuels, natural gas leads with an annual growth rate of just over 2 percent during the same period, followed by oil at less than 2 percent, and coal at less than 1 percent. Nuclear generating capacity expanded by 2 percent.
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Permalink:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Materials/81687-39/c
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