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EU: LOWER COSTS & INNOVATION

source: www.ewea.org/documents/
Facts_Summary.pdf

www.wind-works.org/articles/
lg_rew0205.html

www.ewea.org/documents/WF12-2004_eng.pdf

Today, a single wind turbine is 100 times more powerful than its equivalent two decades ago. The cost per unit (kWh) of wind electricity has already been reduced dramatically as manufacturing and other costs have fallen:

between 1981 and 1995, according to an evaluation of wind turbines installed in Denmark by the RISØ National Research Laboratory, the cost per unit fell from 15.8 € cents/kWh to 5.7 € cents/kWh, a decrease of 2/3.

As a consequence, it is taking less and less time for new markets to reach the 2,000 MW threshold.

New markets start off with better technology and much larger turbines than older markets. It took:

Denmark 16 years (to reach 2,000 MW);

Germany, 7 years;

Spain, only 5 years.

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