French renewable energy trade union (SER) and the French Wind Energy Association (FEE) recently released a report, as at the end of 2009, France has installed a total of 2914 wind turbine units, of which the newly installed 518 units in 2009. During the past 10 years, the number of French wind turbine 20-fold increase.
Report, by the end of 1999, France has 154 wind generators units. Since then, the French wind power sector has made rapid development. In 2000, wind power generation capacity of 500 kwh on average, the current generating capacity of nearly 2.1 megawatts.
In 2009, the French wind turbine when the total power of 7.8 megawatts, accounting for 1.6% of total electricity consumption.

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