News release: “On the back of three years of consistent growth, the US wind market is poised for a record-breaking surge with cumulative installed wind capacity to surpass 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2020, according to a recent market study from Emerging Energy Research. With 5,329 MW of new wind capacity installed in 2007, the US wind power market was responsible for installing more than 27% of newly added global wind capacity this past year, securing the US’ position as the largest wind growth market by annual installations for the third straight year. 2008 is poised to set another record for annual installations in the US, with over 8 GW of wind projects currently under construction scheduled for operation by year’s end, according to EER.”