TJ - didn't you create a post a while back about Germany banning wind turbine installations due to them making people sick from sound waves or some other nonsense?
Did that go into effect yet? If it did, they forgot to tell the people that are installing the turbines....
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/e...-germanys-record-wind-turbine-growth-26109874
Did that go into effect yet? If it did, they forgot to tell the people that are installing the turbines....
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/e...-germanys-record-wind-turbine-growth-26109874
Germany's wind power output in January-May rose 34% year on year and the country is on track for a third successive record year for new turbine installations, with the first wave of offshore wind farms finally coming online, a Platts analysis of the latest available data show.
Wind turbines in Germany generated 32.5 TWh of electricity in January-May, up more than 8 TWh from a year earlier, grid operator data compiled by Platts Powervision show.
On average, wind generated 7.5 GW each hour in the first five months of 2015, the data shows.
That is the equivalent output of seven modern nuclear reactors. Compared with the first five months 2013, wind output so far this year was even 71% higher, the data show.
The main reason for the rise is record growth in Germany's wind-power industry with Germany on track to install over 14 GW of new wind turbines between 2013 and 2015, averaging over 12 MW a day.
That compares with 13 GW added in the seven previous years between 2006 and 2012, or averaging just 5 MW/day, data from Platts Powervision show.
Wind turbines in Germany generated 32.5 TWh of electricity in January-May, up more than 8 TWh from a year earlier, grid operator data compiled by Platts Powervision show.
On average, wind generated 7.5 GW each hour in the first five months of 2015, the data shows.
That is the equivalent output of seven modern nuclear reactors. Compared with the first five months 2013, wind output so far this year was even 71% higher, the data show.
The main reason for the rise is record growth in Germany's wind-power industry with Germany on track to install over 14 GW of new wind turbines between 2013 and 2015, averaging over 12 MW a day.
That compares with 13 GW added in the seven previous years between 2006 and 2012, or averaging just 5 MW/day, data from Platts Powervision show.
