Wind energy farms set new record in 2019

Wind energy output soared to new records in 2019 in Greece, with more new wind energy farms going into operation than in any other year, Hellenic Wind Energy Association HWEA/ELEATEN said in a report released on Thursday.
The increase was almost four times the annual average rate of the previous decade, raising the total power of wind farms to more than 3,500 MW last year.

HWEA said the new wind energy farms beginning operations had a total power of 727.5 MW, four times more than the annual average rate of the previous decade (185 MW), with the biggest single wind energy farm operating in south Evia (154.1 MW).
Public Power Corporation (PPC) completed a repowering of the first seven wind energy farms with a significant reduction of the number of wind turbines (from 62 to 15).
In Kozani, wind turbines have the largest rotor diameter (136 meters), while the...

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