Where can I find an up to date estimate of how many people use windmills! It has to be cited?

Question

Please it can be just a guess! Thanks

Answer 1

According to GE, most of the orders for the turbine have come from the U.S. The company expects to ship more than 5,000 1.5 MW machines globally in 2006 and 2007 and anticipates that the total number of 1.5 MW wind turbines operating worldwide could reach 10,000 by the end of 2008.

At the end of 2006, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 74,223 megawatts;

World power (2005) : 59 000 MW (less than 1% of electricity consumption)
World power (2005) : 4 x world power in 1999
MW cost (2005) : 1/5 of 1999 cost
World potential : 10% of 2017 consumption
French potential : 85 TWh/year (21 000 000 families)
Only 1% of windfarm surface is used by turbines and access roads
Wind turbines kill 1 bird while cars kill 10 000 000 of them
World potential can produce 5 x world energy needs, or 40 x current electricity world needs
At the end of the XIXth century, there were 30 000 wind mills in Europa

The last two links are from a database of wind turbines around the world.