There is no doubt: we would have a diverse array of world class wind turbines for a variety of commercial and retail uses today.
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The U.S. led the world in wind energy installations last year.
Germany already produces 40% of all the world's wind power, and the hope is that by 2010, wind will meet 12.5% of German energy needs.
In other words, when the oil runs out, which it eventually will, Abu Dhabi wants to be ready to sell the world solar or wind or whatever renewable technologies will be needed to supply people's energy needs.
On the day General Electric announced that it will supply the wind turbines for what's planned to be the world's largest wind farm, it also found out that it will have a new but familiar rival in the wind business.
The great river of wind that flows from Texas to the Canadian border is one of the finest renewable energy reserves in the world and the American Wind Energy Association estimates that it could power America twice over.
In other news, the world of renewable energy is jolting for joy as Southwest Wind Power unveiled the world's first fully smart grid-enabled windturbine.
With over 100, 000 large wind turbines world wide and not a single energy plant shut down.
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This October, FPL Energy will inaugurate the world's largest wind farm, Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Abilene, Tex.
One of the world's largest wind farms is being built in Kenya not far from the new-found oil in Turkana.
Boone Pickens, who is planning to build the world's largest wind farm on about 200, 000 acres in the Texas Panhandle.
Vestas won a critical lifeline from its banks that should provide the world's largest wind turbine maker more time to sort out liquidity concerns.
From 2003 to 2011, researchers monitored satellite data for west-central Texas, which is home to 2, 350-plus turbines and four of the world's largest wind farms.
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Explosive growth of more than 40% this year--3, 400 megawatts of new generation is expected--could make the U.S. the world's largest wind-power market, a new report shows.
It says the world's installed wind capacity at the end of 2002 was 31, 128 megawatts, with Denmark the leading user, generating 20 percent of its electricity from the wind.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
At the same time, Beijing wants to cut back rare earth exports to the rest of the world, instead encouraging domestic production into wind and solar products for export around the world.
On Friday, I was in Boston -- that's good news. (Applause.) On Friday, I was in Boston, where workers will soon be breaking ground on a new Wind Technology Testing Center that will allow researchers in the United States to test the world's newest and largest wind turbine blades for the very first time.
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Plans to build the world's largest offshore wind project in the Outer Moray Firth have been submitted to Marine Scotland.
Highland councillors have given their backing to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.
Highland councillors have been advised not to object to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.
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BARCELONA, SPAIN - August 14, 2012 - Urban Green Energy (UGE) and GE (NYSE: GE) have unveiled the world's first integrated wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.
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According to Pacific Hydro, wind is the world's fastest growing energy source, with installed capacity over the five years from 1998-200 growing at an average 32 percent a year.
When completed, the London Array will be one of the world's largest offshore wind farms covering an area of 90 sq m (232 sq km) between Margate and Clacton.
While England has the world's largest marine wind farm in Thanet, Scotland has, when I last looked, a modest Solway Firth array and a trial turbine in the Moray Firth.
German company TimberTower celebrated the installation of the world's first wooden wind turbine tower in Hanover, and for the annual Glow Festival, Eindhoven unveiled an impressive glowing dome made from 30, 000 LEDs.
As China expands its own use of energy, including that from renewable sources, the nation intends to hold-back its exports of REEs for its own use, with potential impacts on the development of renewable energy such as from wind across the world.
China is now the leading producer of solar cells and wind turbines in the world.
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