1. CONTENTS
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Imprint 1
Foreword 3
Table of Contents 5
I. Wind Energy Worldwide - Statistics 9
World Wind Energy Report 2012 World Wind EnergyAssociation 11
II. Country Reports 25
1. Africa 27
Algeria Ouahiba Guerri 29
Egypt Mohamed Mostafa El-Khyat 31
Ethiopia Mehari G. Beyene, S. Herzing and W. Wolde-Ghiorgis 34
Kenya Isaac N. Kiva, Geoffrey Kihara and Grace Njeru 37
Marocco Khalid Benhamou 39
Namibia Conrad Roedern 42
South Africa Hermann Oelsner 45
Tanzania R. R. Kainkwa, R. A. Msuya and H. Mwanyika 49
Tunisia Nafaa Baccari 51
2. America 55
2.1. Latin America 57
Argentina Alejandro T. García 59
Brazil Everaldo Feitosa and Gustavo de Novaes Pires Leite 63
Caribbean Islands Alejandro Montesinos Larrosa and Conrado Moreno 65
Central America Jean-Daniel Pitteloud 69
Chile Arturo Kunstmann 71
Colombia Luis Fernando Rodríguez 74
Costa Rica Enrique Rodríguez Flores 77
Cuba Conrado Moreno Figueredo 80
Mexico Eduardo A. Rincón Mejía and Brenda G. Salazar Aguilar 83
Panama Antonio Clement Gálvez 86
South America (Rest) Jean-Daniel Pitteloud 88
Uruguay José Cataldo 90
2.2. North America 91
Canada Volker Thomsen 93
United States of America Neil Veilleux and Roland Devenyi 98
3. Asia 107
Bangladesh Haragobinga Baidya 109
China Shi Pengfei 112
DPR Korea Rim Mu Song 115
India Anagha Bhambri 117
Indonesia Dani Rusirawan and Soeripno Martosaputro 126
Iran Aref Khojaste, Hossein Afaride and Eman Amini 132
Israel Ben Spitz 134
Japan Chuichi Arakawa and Tetsuya Kogaki 136
Jordan Omar Badran 140
Kazakhstan Gennady Doroshin 143
Mongolia Badamdamdin Ragchaa, O. Dandar and M. Enkhmend 145
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Nepal Ram P. Regmi 147
Pakistan Irfan Afzal Mirza, Tahawar Hussian and Sana Ahmed 149
Syria Ali Hamzeh 152
South Korea Choong-Yul Son 154
Thailand Wolfgang Meter Kurz 157
Vietnam Werner Kossmann 159
4. Australia / Pacific 163
Australia Felicity Sands, Alicia Webb and Heinz L. Dahi 165
New Zealand Tania Hood 168
5. Europe 173
Austria Florian Maringer 175
Belgium Bruno Claessens 177
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ajla Lukac, M. Music, E. Redzic and A. Ademovic 180
Bulgaria Velizar Kiriakov 182
Cyprus Panayiotis Keliris 184
Czech Republic Milan Smrz 187
Denmark Frede Hvelplund 189
Estonia Tuuliki Kasonen 193
Finland Ville Turkia 196
France Marion Lettry 198
Germany BWEA and VDMA Power Systems 200
Greece Savvas Seimanides and Athanasios Konstantopoulos 203
Ireland John Mc Can 207
Italy Alessandro Totaro 212
Malta Robert N. Farrugia, Tonio Sant and Robert Ghirlando 216
Norway Øistein Schmidt Galaaen 219
Poland Mariusz Witonski 221
Portugal Isabel Cancela de Abreu 224
Romania Adrian Bej 228
Russian Federation Viktor Elistratov 234
Serbia Danilo Drndarski 238
Slovakia Peter Stibrany 242
Spain Mischa Bechberger 244
Sweden Gunnar Grusell 249
Switzerland Reto Rigassi 254
The Netherlands Fabian Musall 257
Turkey Tanay Sidki Uyar 259
Ukraine Andriy Konechenkov and Galyria Shmidt 262
United Kingdom David Milborrow 267
III. Special Reports 271
1. Policy 273
Analysis on Tariff Mechanism for Generations Wang Qiankun 275
from Renewables in EU and its Implications
for China
Role of Wind Energy for Global Cooling Stephan Volkwein 279
Wind Energy Sector-India: Trends and Detriments Gourav Gandhi 283
of Policy Uncertainties
The Impact of Tax and Legal Incentives Oksana Olekhova and Olga Lubiv 289
on Wind Energy Projects in Ukraine
2. Finance 293
Wind Power Costs in 2012: An Increasingly Michael Taylor 295
Competitive Source of Electricity
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