Sentence examples for more wind capacity from inspiring English sources

Although China has more wind capacity than the US, it generates less electricity from wind.

As just one example, China now leads the world in solar cell manufacturing, is poised to install more wind capacity per year than any other nation on earth and has plans to install the world's most efficient transmission system.

More wind power capacity addition can reduce reliance on fossil fuels and modular sizing of generators instead of adding large capacities could have reduced the idle capacity.

By the start of the present millennium, Germany had installed more wind generating capacity than any country in the world.

Britain now has more offshore wind capacity than any country in the world, says Labour.

We're now a world leader in offshore wind – with more installed offshore wind capacity than the rest of the world combined, and supporting 18,300 jobs in the UK.

The price of renewables is still higher than coal or comparatively cleaner natural gas, but the gap is shrinking as more wind and solar capacity comes online, said Larry Chretien, executive director of the Energy Consumers Alliance of New England.

More than half of the United States' potentially capturable offshore wind capacity — more than what the entire nation can now produce — is in deeper waters, said José Zayas, who directs the Wind Energy Technologies Office at the federal Department of Energy.

Over the last five years--with the help of state renewable electricity standards, stimulus spending and production tax credits--U.S. wind capacity has more than tripled and solar capacity has more than quadrupled, boosting employment and attracting private investment.

In April, a Royal Academy of Engineering report concluded wind capacity could more than double from today's 11GW by 2020 without any changes to how the energy system is balanced.

Kevin Borgia, executive director of the Illinois Wind Energy Association, said Illinois had more than 1,800 megawatts of wind capacity, putting it in the top five states nationwide.