"In 2006, Germans invested more than US$10 billion in new sources of renewable energy<http://www.german-renewable-energy.com/Renewables/Navigation/Englisch/root.html>. Germany now operates more wind-farms, more solar-farms and more biogas plants than any other nation. Renewable energy sources contributed over 70 billion kilowatts in 2006, which is over 11 percent of Germany's total electricity consumption." [excerpt from article on IBM intranet discussing IBM's role in making "smart power grid".]
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