High winds slash Spanish energy prices | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Spain finished the year with 16,740 MW of installed wind capacity, second only to the United States and Germany.
In which case, it's English language that's silly :-)
For my ears, saying "second only" when one actually describes something in third position sounds silly -- and when the link goes to an EWEA release, in which the USA doesn't feature but Spain is truly second behind Germany, temptation is easy to assume shoddy journalistic work. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.