“We haven’t released our numbers, but it will be a record year in the US,” he says.
GE also has the four next highest US wind capacity installs including 3.58GW in 2008, 2.54GW in 2010, 2.34GW in 2007 and 2GW last year, according to data compiled by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Vestas is in sixth place with 1.96GW installed in 2011.
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