Sunday, May 29, 2011

Growth of Wind-Power Industry

A sampling of states and countries  to show  9-year change in installed Wind Power Capacity:   
                                 ( millions of watts )

                                2001                       2010 

Texas                      1096                     10,085
Washington              180                      2104
Oregon                    157                       2104
California                 1683                     3177
Utah                         0                          223
Iowa                         324                       3675
Colorado                 61                         1299
New York                 48                        1275

China                      400                        41,800             
India                        236                       13,000
United States           4275                     40,181
Germany                 8754                      27,214


                                                                           (windpoweringamerica.gov)
                                                                           (lmwindpower.com)
                                                    (wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country)  

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