The results of a study by business analists DBK which have just been released show that the use of renewable energy resources is increasing rapidly here in Spain. The energy generated from wind in 2007 rose to 13.8 Megawatts, with a projected increase to15.9 MW by the end of the year. The power generated from solar energy in 2007 totalled 623 MW, with a projection of 1,200 MW, an almost 100 per cent increase, by the end of this year. A town of ten thousand people needs around 6.5 MW.
At the end of 2007 there were 574 wind farms in Spain and the number of solar generation installations has risen form just five at the end of the last decade to 19 thousand at the end of last year meaning the governments objectives for power generated from the sun by 2010 have already been reached.
Power generation from renewable sources formed a little over ten per cent of the electricity sold in Spain in 2007. Wind generated electricity sales were worth 2.100 million euros and those from solar energy came to 209 million euros, four times the amount made the previous year and the projection for 2008 rises to 470 million euros.
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