German Wind farms produced about 7% of the energy consumed in Germany
in 2009. That is a heck of a significant delivery.

Yes but the Germans (i) legislated to make people pay for it earlier and
(ii) benefit from the ability to share with other countries through
trans-national connection schemes so there is a better chance of the
wind blowing somewhere at a time people want to use electricity. (We of
course will have to pay through the nose for undersea connections; and
probably pay yet more because the EU is involved.)
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Robin
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