KWh:kilowatt hour or 103 W·h MWh: megawatt hour or 106 W·h GWh: gigawatt hour or 109 W·h TWh: TeraWatt hour or 1012 W·h
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:56 AM, <qui...@clearwire.net> wrote: > Fritz, > My complaint is that we started after many and did not devote > enough government resources to it. Most of Europe did. Even Spain was ahead > of us at one time and still is I think. We lost sight of the OPEC oil > problem in a hurry. There is a new company in Idaho? (if my memory is right) > that is from Spain and is building turbins. I think it opened in the last > year. We are behind on a lot of this. The states that are doing well are the > ones with state incentives. There was a new Senate hearing on this sort of > thing - ummm! > > This is from the BWEA in the UK. > > It is clear to see how much wind energy has taken off in some countries, > notably Denmark, Germany and Spain, the first of which now gets *20%* of > it's electricity from wind turbines, compared to our 1%. However, the UK has > the largest wind energy resources of any country in Europe, and now that the > European market's economies of scale have driven the price of wind energy > down, the UK is set for a massive expansion of clean energy. > > For more information about wind energy in Europe read this report > commissioned by the European > Union<http://www.bwea.com/ref/europe-the-facts.html>in 2004. Also visit > www.ewea.org our European sister organisation. > > They speak in terms of TWh - I need to look up what that is past MW. > > The exploitable onshore wind resource for the EU-25 is > > conservatively estimated at 600 TWh and the offshore > > wind resource up to 3,000 TWh; the upper end of this far > > exceeding the EU-15's entire electricity consumption. > > The > *European Wind Atlas *produced by the Danish national > > research laboratory, Forskningscenter Risø, gives a > > good overview of the EU potential. An offshore version is > > also available. >
