Mr. Wright says wind power in Vermont reflects "a misunderstanding of what a responsible society must do to slow the warming of our planet".
At growth rates like that, experts said, wind power could eventually make an important contribution to the nation's electrical supply.
Rahul Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, which makes motorbikes and three-wheelers, and is Suzlon's biggest customer, says wind power would not be viable without the tax benefits it brings.
Thresher said wind power is becoming "a cost-effective source of energy and a hedge against other fuel sources".
Vince says wind power experts tend to regard vertical axis turbines as being less efficient than a traditional horizontal one.
But Jennifer Webber, a spokeswoman for RenewableUK, the trade body, said: "Wind power is often used as a convenient whipping boy by political opponents and vested interests.
The report, by Cambridge Econometrics for RenewableUK, said wind power saved the UK £579 million in fossil fuel costs in 2013.
"In fields from Iowa to Texas," he said, "wind power is now cheaper than dirtier, conventional power".
While the song itself, which actually has nothing to do with Communism or the Cold War, hasn't had the staying power of, say, "Wind of Change," the Scorpions' anthem to the end of the old world order, the apocryphal story that the Hoff subsequently claimed personal responsibility for having brought down the Wall stuck.
Laura Sandys, a Conservative MP who supports wind power, said: "Wind often gets a bad press but actually it costs the average UK household only £10 a year and generates electricity 80% of the time.
