America’s wind sector added a record 13.12GW last year, more than 8GW of it in the final quarter, according to the Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC’s) statistics for 2012.
The US surge – prompted by fears that the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) was about to expire – left it neck-and-neck with China, which added 13.2GW.
GWEC says while the US rushed, China “paused for breath” in 2012 after previous years of rapid growth of its own.
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