China soon to be biggest wind producer
This is the first public confirmation from a Chinese official that the installed capacity of wind power in China will be the world's largest.
Just recently, the NEA said that the installed capacity of wind power in China would reach 35 gigawatts GW by the end of this year. The actual installed capacity might surpass this figure, Wu said, he gave no specific prediction.
China's installed capacity of wind power received an additional 13.8 GW in 2009. As of the end of 2009, China's accumulative installed capacity of wind power reached 25.8 GW, ranking second just after the United States' 35.06 GW. If 2010 sees the same level of new construction as 2009, China's installed capacity of wind power will be close to 40 GW by the end of this year.
According to a latest report of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance, it's expected that the new installations of wind power in the United States will drop 39 compared with the previous year. Mr. Steve Sawyer, Secretary of the Global Wind Energy Council GWEN, said at a recent news conference for the publication of the Global Wind Energy Outlook 2010, that the installed capacity of wind power in China might surpass the United States at the end of this year, but no official response was given at that time.
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