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Table 49
Installed Capacity (in MW) of Wind Energy, 2002
Europe 22,558
Germany 12,001
Spain 4,144
Denmark 2,889
Italy 785
The Netherlands 677
UK 562
Sweden 310
Greece 276
Rest of Europe 914
North America 4,929
USA 4,708
Canada 221
Asia 2,466
India 1,702
China 399
Japan 351
Rest of Asia 14
Rest of World 426
Total 30,379
Source: Systèmes Solaires/EurObserv’ER.
Until the mid 1980s, wind turbine size was typically less than 100 kW, then in
the range of a few hundred kilowatts up until the mid 1990s, when turbine
sizes began to range from 0.5-1.5 MW (see Figure 58). Such large scale
turbines are often used by on-land wind farm operators and owners of
individual, mostly grid-connected wind turbines. In countries with less
developed transport and power transmission and distribution infrastructure,
this size class remains, or is becoming, dominant. In Germany, average wind
turbine size reached 1.4 MW in 2002 and this large-scale turbine size class is
becoming very competitive. Virtually all of the capacity is grid-connected.
A relatively recent phenomenon in the segment of the smallest turbines is the
so-called urban turbine.
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