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If we were to have the same graph with the comparison being in the top 5 countries for each technology, wind wouldn't look as good.

For most of the 1991-2006 period, c. 80% of wind capacity was in only five countries: Germany, Spain, India, USA, Denmark. Though the reason wind played a small role elsewhere wasn't lack of technological capacity, but the lack of the legal and financial framework, I think that makes the comparison fair.

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by DoDo on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:22:25 PM EST
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Just checked: the five countries I mentioned were still on top and combined 78% of all installed capacity at the end of 2005. Two years later, Denmark was pushed to sixth place by China, but the original Big Five were still 70% of the global total.

(For a look at earlier situations on the wind market, see for example 1999 and 1998.)

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by DoDo on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:46:46 PM EST
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...or just check all the data for the original Big Five plus China from 1980 (though that table is a bit incoherent: non-matching numbers taken from various sources).

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by DoDo on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 06:08:33 PM EST
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Let's do wind | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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