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Germany boosts onshore wind capacity by record amount in 2014
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany's newly installed onshore wind power capacity rose by a record 4,750 megawatts (MW) in 2014, industry groups said on Thursday, marking what is likely to be a peak annual gain as the country gears up for a nuclear-free future. Representing additional energy production roughly equivalent to one nuclear plant, the increase was 58 percent bigger than in 2013. Reckoning with new land resources made available following Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, engineering group VDMA and...
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