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By Chuck | Permalink | No Comments | March 27th, 2008 | Trackback

Denmark gets 20% of their electricity from wind power. Germany gets around 7%. What about the United States? Well, not too impressive. At the end of 2007, only about 1.3% of the United States’ electricity production came from wind power. That percentage is changing fast, however. By the end of 2008 it will be around 2% I know that doesn’t sound like much, but if you look at the trend over the past 8 to 10 years, you will see that it is growing exponentially.

0.12% 1999
0.8% 2006 (approximately 31 billion KwH of wind power - AWEA 2006)
1.3% 2007 (based on total megawatts of wind turbines installed through 2007)
2% 2008 (based on estimated megawatts of wind turbines to be installed by end of 2008)

That, along with advances in wind turbine generator technology (they are getting bigger and more efficient), should allow wind power to reach 10% of the country’s electricity production by the year 2020. Most of this data is given by the American Wind Energy Association which is a good source of information. Other data was provided by Barr Engineering Co., Minneapolis, MN.

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