How much electricity is produced by wind power?

I need to know the answers to some questions about wind power, however, I have looked everywhere and cant find the Information. I was really hoping somebody can help me :)

1. What percent of electricity is produced by wind power in the UK, France and Netherlands ( all the info needs to be from the same year)

2. Where is the biggest wind farm in the world and how much electricity does it produce?

If anyone could help me I would be sooo grateful :D

Thank youu :) :D x

1. Is changing quite quickly; countries are expanding wind power quickly and output varies a bit by year. Wiki has a good comparison chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power#Wind_power_usage

in 2008 it was about 1.1% of French electricity (up from 0.8% in ’07) and 2.0% of UK electricity (up from 1.5% in ’07). I can’t find figures for ’08 in the Netherlands, but I expect it’s higher. They had 2.2GW installed (compared to 3.3GW in the UK), but only consumed ~105bn kWh compared with the UK’s ~350-380bn kWh. (source: CIA world factbook).

The share is expected to grow: the UK generated ~2% of electricity in a year it ended with 3.3GW installed. It now has 4.5GW installed and has recently given the go-ahead to about 20GW+ of offshore wind farms, with a further 8.5GW consented or under construction according to the BWEA.

2. Current biggest wind farm is Horse Hollow Wind Energy Centre at 735.5 MW peak output:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_Hollow_Wind_Energy_Center

Much bigger ones are being planned, including the 20 GW Gansu Wind Farm (one of 6 similar sized ones planned in China), the

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