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U.S. Gains in Dispute with China Over Wind Energy Subsidies

The wind energy council’s latest report on the world market says China added 16,500 Mw of wind capacity last year, bringing its total capacity to 42,287 Mw at the end of 2010.

The U.S., which ranked first in 2009, slipped to second place last year, with a total capacity of 40,180 Mw, says the report by the Brussels-based council.

The report, released in April, also said China “is set to continue the rapid upscaling of its wind capacity,” and is expected to add more than 20,000 MW of wind energy capacity per year by 2015.

As ENR's former Washington Bureau Chief, Tom Ichniowski wrote about the federal government since the George H.W. Bush administration, and covered at least five major highway bills. A recognized expert on government policy on infrastructure and regulation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, where he once used “unrelentless” in a headline.

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