{"id":1825,"date":"2010-03-19T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:52","slug":"report-says-wind-power-capacity-grew-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/report-says-wind-power-capacity-grew-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Report says wind power capacity grew in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-farm1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Live Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwindea.org\/home\/index.php\">World Wind Energy Association<\/a> (WWEA) said in a report released earlier this month that worldwide wind power capacity reached 159\u00e2\u20ac\u2122213MW in the period. 38\u00e2\u20ac\u2122312 MW were added in 2009.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2009 saw the biggest growth rate since 2001, or 31,7%. That means global wind energy production now could meet the equivalent of Italy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy demand, or 2% of global electricity demand.<br \/>\n<!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>Asia accounted for the largest share of new installations (40, 4%), followed by North America with 28,4%. The United states remained at the top in terms of total installed capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The industry generated a turnover of US$67.6 billion, employing 550,000 people worldwide. It is expected that 2010 will see total wind capacity exceed a 200\u00e2\u20ac\u2122000 Megawatt capacity.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/94d4482b-d398-4e52-8ad0-cdbca20be1d9\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=94d4482b-d398-4e52-8ad0-cdbca20be1d9\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" style=\"border:none;float:right\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) said in a report released earlier this month that worldwide wind power capacity reached 159\u00e2\u20ac\u2122213MW in the period. 38\u00e2\u20ac\u2122312 MW were added in 2009. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172,88,303,116,108,304,118,302],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-energy","tag-electricity-generation","tag-energy","tag-italy","tag-renewable","tag-united-states","tag-wind","tag-wind-power","tag-world-wind-energy-association"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9596,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/9596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}