Far from the reigning slackness of the economic market, the growth of the wind turbine sector climbed to 31% in 2009.

37 500MW have been installed last year. Thus, the total wind power energy in the world has reached 157 900MW.

The first countries as regards the production of electricity by wind turbines are :

1. The US (35 200MW)
2. Germany (25 800MW)
3. China (25 100MW)

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