Wind Energy

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Wind Energy

• Hallie Watson

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Trends Promoting Growth

• -Environmental Concerns
• -increases in
• -population
• -industrialization
• -standards of living
• -Policy Changes
• -U.S. Vs. Europe
• World Wind Energy Generating Capacity, 19802002
  in Thousand Megawatts

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Successful Wind Farms Need

• -sustainable wind resource
• -supportive and stable government policy
• -RPS
• -Policies in Europe
• -incentives in Germany and Denmark
• -Grid avaliability
• -Adequate return on capital
• -Public Support

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GEs Success with Wind Energy

• -Unit created in 2002
• -Initially wanted to become global supplier of
  wind turbine generators
• -exceeded financial thresholds
• -Costs are decreasing with improved technologies

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