New wind capacity additions in 2009 may drop as low as 6.5 gigawatts (GW), 24% lower than 2008’s record level, the report says. But the market will rebound to 9 GW in new capacity in 2010 and 11 GW in new capacity in 2011, EER predicts.
“The US wind industry may post its strongest year ever in 2010 when the incentive-laced economic stimulus begins to show returns and transmission build-out reaches market," says EER Senior Analyst Matthew Kaplan.
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