Wind Energy in Spain and Germany

Due to the energysituation in theese days, the trend goes more and more from conventional energy sources to renewables. A study by the Global Wind Energy Council, Brussel, shows that from the point of installed power world-wide, Germany is on place two with 23.903 MW directly followed by Spain with 16.754 MW at the end of 2008.

More than 60% of the spains produced windenergy comes from the provinces of Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and Galicia. In Germany the three biggest producer of windenergy are the states Niedersachsen, Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt.

Both countries also have big companies, which produces wind power plants. Beside other companies are in Spain Gamesa and in Germany Enercon one of the biggest.

Recources:

• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energ%C3%ADa_e%C3%B3lica_en_Espa%C3%B1a
• http://www.wind-energie.de/