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As of December 2017, Enercon had installed more than 26,300 wind turbines, with a power generating capacity exceeding 43 GW. [4] The most-often installed model is the E-40, which pioneered the gearbox-less design in 1993. [5] As of July 2011, Enercon has a market share of 7.2% world-wide (fifth-highest) and 59.2% in Germany. [6]
Latvia's wind capacity grew by 75%, the largest percent increase in 2022. [3] In November 2018, wind power generation in Scotland was higher than the country's electricity consumption during the month. [5] Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2022 was 7.3%, up from 8.9% from the prior year. [3]
Wind turbines have some of the lowest global warming potential per unit of electricity generated: far less greenhouse gas is emitted than for the average unit of electricity, so wind power helps limit climate change. [3] Wind power consumes no fuel, and emits no air pollution, unlike fossil fuel power sources. The energy consumed to manufacture ...
The 2010 South China floods began in early May 2010. [269] [270] [271] 392 people died and a further 232 people were reported missing as of June 30, 2010; [272] [273] this included 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. 53 of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3, [274] and 266 deaths occurred between June ...
The "global terrestrial stilling" is not affecting in the same way the whole Earth's surface across both land and ocean surfaces. Spatially, increasing wind speed trends have been reported for some regions, in particular for high-latitudes, [18] coastal [19] and for ocean surfaces where different authors [3] [20] [4] have evidenced an increased global trend of wind speed using satellite ...
In 2014, a record breaking year for renewable electricity production, wind power accounted for 20.2% of total electricity generation in Spain making it the second most important electricity source after nuclear power (22%) and ahead of coal power (16.5%). [7] In earlier periods wind energy covered 16% of the demand in 2010, 13.8% in 2009 and 11 ...
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Hawaii began research into wind power in the mid-1980s with a 340 kW turbine on Maui, and the 2.3MW Lalamilo Wells wind farm on Oahu and the 9MW Kamaoa wind farm on the Big Island of Hawaii . [4] The MOD-5B, a 3.2MW wind turbine, on Oahu was the largest in the world in 1987. These early examples were all out of service by 2010.