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

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4. Perhaps if you read it again?

I didn't say "down almost double" I said "down from almost double that last year"

We've seen the same roller coaster before:

Nice to see you finally admit it. Yes... the expiration of government subsidies tends to shift demand forward, while the anticipation of future subsidies tends to postpone demand. (Which makes it particularly silly to look at an assembly line for one piece of a system and extrapolate that into the number of units that will be in place x years later)

So let's say we do 5.2GW again this year

Their prediction was 3-4GW.

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

Nope... for the obvious reasons (variable KWs aren't "equivalent" to more reliable KWs... and the nuclear plant will still be cranking out those KWs when the replacement for the wind farm is retiring (and possible when the replacement to the replacement is retiring).

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

Much better than you expected.