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Your previous diary noted that European Off-shore new capacity delivered in 2009 was 600 Megawatts and represented c. 10% of total new wind capacity in Europe.  Thus Europe delivered only c. 6 Gigawatt of new wind capacity in 2009 compared to 10 for the US.

EWEA's numbers are still not out, but,

  • incidentally, the German Federal Wind Energy Association just released its numbers: 1,916.8 MW added (reaching a total of 25,777.01 MW), higher than in the last two years, and higher than what I expected from the half-year numbers and the general economic and regulatory situation.

  • The Spanish numbers aren't out yet, but AEE reports that wind power increased its share in the supply of demand from 11.5 to 14.3% (with 20.1% reached in windy December and a record 54.1% at 03:50 on 30 December), so, I think they exceeded last year too. One can also guesstimate the current total from the figures here, which is about 2 GW above last year's total, so it should be around 1.9 GW too.

  • The UK's BWEA lists projects summing up to around 1075 MW [BWEA is notoriously bad at checking its numbers], though that's not final.

  • French wind power is a 4,522 MW, that's another increase by 1.1 GW.

So four of the the big ones sum up to 6 GW already. Portugal, Italy, Greece, Ireland and the rest should add at least another 3 GW, so I think expectations will be well exceeded in the EU, too: should be around 9 GW.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jan 27th, 2010 at 03:00:05 PM EST
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