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• China world's wind power leader: new figures
  March 23, 2012 - peopledaily.com.cn
  
  BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- China consolidated its position as the world's wind power leader in both newly and cumulative installed capacities in 2011, according to official figures released by the China Wind Energy Association (CWEA) on Friday.
  
  
• World Will Install 44 Gigawatts of Wind Power in 2011
  Oct 5, 2011 - Dave Levitan - spectrum.ieee.org
  
  The World Wind Energy Association released its mid-year report for 2011, and showed an increase in installations over the same period a year earlier. A total of 18,405 megawatts of wind power were installed in the first half of this year around the world, up from 16,000 MW in 2010.
  
  
• More Than 1200 MW Set To Enter European Grid
  Sep 1, 2011 - Meg Cichon - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Grid connectivity is a lingering issue for renewables. Many ideal sources for renewable power tend to be in remote areas with no line access or densely populated areas with undersized, or already over-powered transmission.
  
  
• Increasing its Nation-Leading Wind Capacity: Texas Announces New Wind Developments
  Sep 1, 2011 - energyboom.com
  
  Located on 30,000 acres of leased land just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Los Vientos I Windpower Project will be Duke Energy's fourth wind farm in Texas.
  
  
• Innovative wind turbine design triples output
  Oct 14, 2009 - World of Renewables.com
  
  From the first flight at Kitty Hawk, it took about 50 years to engineer the switch from spinning propellers to more efficient jet engines. Now wind technology could be about to make a similar design leap, barely a decade after the commercial industry’s birth in the U.S.

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