German wind energy 2012: No increase in wind energy production despite 1000 new wind turbines
'Despite the increase in the number of units (1000 new units, NNoN), the amount of electricity they contributed to the grid merely remained stable. According to Sylvia Pilarsky-Grosch, VP of the German Wind Energy Association, 'We didn't produce more electricity in 2012 with wind energy than we did in 2011.' And one of the reasons for that was that there simply wasn't enough wind'