China to be biggest wind turbine manufacturer by 2009 (10 GW/year)

http://www.interfax.cn/displayarticle.asp?aid=30496&slug=CHINA-WIND%20POWER-GWEC

Beijing. January 15. INTERFAX-CHINA - China may become the world's biggest manufacturer of wind turbines by 2009, Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), told Interfax.

Sawyer said that this prediction is based on the market research carried out by Azure International. According to the research, China's wind turbine production capacity will reach 10,000 megawatts by the end of 2009, up from the present 4,000 megawatts, and be equal to more than half of the world's current wind turbine production capacity.

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Statistics from GWEC show that China is rich in wind energy potential, with 253 gigawatts of identified capacity.

Globally, wind power accounted for only 1 percent of the world's total electricity power supply in 2007. However, GWEC expects wind farms to supply 12 percent of the world's power by 2020.

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Good for China!