Global Wind Day 2010

German Environment Minister Röttgen: Wind energy will play a major role globally.

“A breath of fresh air” is the slogan of todays Global Wind Day. The
campaign is aimed at raising awareness of wind energy and the important role it plays in renewable energy production. “Wind energy will play a central role in the carbon-free energy mix of the future, not only in Germany but worldwide,” German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen asserted. “We in Germany want to have achieved the most extensive shift
of our energy supply to renewable energies by 2050. In that effort, offshore wind energy in particular will play a decisive part in power generation,” he added.

Events and campaigns demonstrating the technology of modern wind turbines and showing what wind energy can do to contribute to climate protection, jobs, and economic prosperity will take place simultaneously in over 20 countries worldwide.

Wind energy has experienced a real boom over the past years. Roughly 90,000 workers generated total sales worth approx. ? 5.7 billion last year (approx. 6.84 billion US Dollar) in Germany. Within that same
timeframe, over 21,000 wind power plants installed in Germany produced some 37.8 billion kilowatt hours of power, thus becoming the leading source of renewable energy in power generation. That amount of energy is enough to provide over 10 million households with power. At the same
time, 30.2 million tons of carbon emissions are avoided.

But the potential of wind energy is by no means exhausted. Above all, the use of wind energy at sea as well as the replacement of older plants with modern, powerful new ones, known in the industry as “repowering,” offer prospects for further expansion.

For more information please visit www.Germany.info

And http://www.globalwindday.org

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