Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend, the country’s wind power association said Tuesday.

As heavy winds lashed Spain on Saturday evening wind parks generated 9,862 megawatts of power which translated to 40.8 percent of total consumption due to low demand during the Easter holiday weekend, AEE said.

Between Friday and Sunday wind power accounted for an average of 28 percent of all electricity demand in Spain, which is a leading world producer of such energy, a statement from the association said.

The record for power generated by Spain’s wind parks was set on March 4 at 10,032 megawatts, but as it was a regular working day this accounted for less percentage demand.

even CHINA understands the need to go green with WIND!

A-Power gets contract for 50 wind turbines
Monday October 6, 2:16 pm ET
A-Power secures second contract with China National, for 50 wind turbines

NEW YORK (AP) — A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. said Monday it received a contract to supply 50, 2.7-megawatt wind turbines to China National Automation Control System Corp.
The company did not provide financial terms of the deal. It comes in addition to an existing contract with China National to provide five, 2.7-megawatt turbines.

The company will make the turbines in Shenyang, China. The turbines will be implemented in Gansu province and the Inner-Mongolia Autonomous region in China.

even Africa understands WIND!!!

Ethiopia signs deal for largest wind farm in Africa

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia on Thursday signed a 220-million-euro
(300 million dollar) deal with a French company for the construction
of Africa’s largest wind farm.

The contract was inked by representatives of the Ethiopian Electric
Power Corporation (EEPC) and French wind turbine manufacturer Vergnet.

The wind farm is expected to produce 120 megawatts within two and half
years, making it the largest such project on the continent.

“This is a very strategic project for us. The first (largest) in
Africa for wind energy production with 120 megawatts, that is to say
15 percent of our present capacity,” EEPC chairman Meheret Debebe
said.

“This project will help us to fill the gap of hydrological risks we
are facing in Ethiopia with the droughts,” he explained.

Ethiopia has been chronically hit by droughts, affecting the
humanitarian plight of millions as well as crippling its electricity
production, which is heavily reliant on hydroelectric dams.