Global Wind Energy Council Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Global Wind Power Capacity is Set to Boom in 2015 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:49:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54402 The global wind energy industry has been seeing robust growth, increasing capacity by 16.2% in 2014 from 318,644 MW in 2013 to 369,597 MW. Much of the increase is accounted for by China, Germany, the US, Brazil and India, although there have been a number of new installations in the rest of the world. Global […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/feed/ 2 54402 US Awarded First Place in Wind Energy Production https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-first-place-wind-energy-production-20090204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-first-place-wind-energy-production-20090204/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:45:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2035 The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) awarded the United States of America with the first position in wind energy production. US has a huge lead compared to other countries as last year they increasedtheir wind energy capacity by half. US windmills can generate up to 25GW of energy - about a fifth of global wind power.

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