2014 Is Looking To Be A 7,000 Megawatt Year For Wind Power Capacity And Innovation

[kristopher]

3. "Down almost double"?

I suppose that made sense to you but you'll have to forgive me for my "WTF?"

We've seen the same roller coaster before:
In 2007: 5.2GW;
2008: 8.3GW;
and in 2009 we saw a 10GW boom because regulatory uncertainty (championed by the Nuclear Industry fer sher).

2010 - we dropped to 5.2GW again.

Then it settled down to 7GW in 2011.

The games Repubs played with the PTC pushed a spike in US wind to a bit more than 13GW in 2012 (5.2GW in December alone). Those same games created a sluggish market this year and the article is about the fact that it will "revive" to the 7GW level in 2014.

So let's say we do 5.2GW again this year and the 7GW in 2014.
5.2+8.3+10+5.2+7+13+5.2+7

That would make it 61.4 GW of installed US capacity in 8 years.

At 30% capacity that is the equivalent generation of about 21 GW of nuclear plants, isn't it?

BTW, how's that nuclear revival going for you?