The government expects that the majority of the 13GW total from onshore wind will come from large projects over 5 megawatts (MW) in capacity.
Even in 2035, with the most optimistic scenario, the International Energy Agency estimates that just 2.4% of the world's energy will come from wind and only 1% from solar.
The remaining 40% would come from wind farms, along with a smaller element of biomass and hydropower as a back-up.
Twenty percent of its electricity needs come from wind -- a significantly higher proportion than any other country in the world.
Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy source for electricity generation in the U.S., and DOE estimates that 20 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. could come from wind power by 2030.
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China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
And that means by 2035, 80 percent of our electricity will come from renewables like wind and solar, as well as efficient natural gas, clean coal, nuclear power.
The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.
Then there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020.
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Why not set a national goal of having 20% of our electricity come from domestic alternative and renewable sources, including wind and solar power, by the year 2020?
Just then the son, who had come home from Bear Hill, asked his mother to wind up the gramophone.
Channelled up and down Crete's mountain canyons - veritable wind tunnels - these stiff breezes are known to locals by individual names, depending on from where they come, how long they stay, and what gifts they bring with them.
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