A report issued by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) states that there have been more wind power installations in 2008 inside the EU than any other electricity generating technology.
New statistics released show that 43% of all new electricity generating operations built in the European Union last year were wind energy, exceeding all other technologies including gas, coal and nuclear power.
There was a total increase in new power capacity of 19,651 MW in 2008. Out of this, 8,484 MW (43%) was wind power; 6,932 MW (35%) gas powered plants; 2,495 …

A new report issued by Ernst and Young has Ireland placed 10th out of 25 in global renewable energy attractiveness indices. This marks an improvement of two places from the last report and only China had a similar improvement, both countries showing the biggest move upwards in the report.