EU Wind Turbines May Gain Edge on Natural Gas Plants – For the third year in a row, new wind power units in the European Union have produced the same amount of electricity as newly built natural gas plants. New wind installations produced 10 gigawatts last year, while new natural gas plants produced only 7. 2010 is expected to bring in an additional 10 gigawatts of wind power capacity, which would boost the annual total to about 85 gigawatts. Gas is still the leading electricity generator with 119 gigawatts, but as wind power continues its rapid expansion this may change.

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