You're listening to Steve Sawyer of the Global wind Energy Council, a trade association that represents the wind industry at the international level.

您正在收听到的是世界风能协会职员史蒂夫·索耶的讲话。世界风能协会是国际风力发电产业的同行公会。

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Last year America ramped up wind-power capacity to 25 gigawatts (GW), overtaking the previous leader, Germany, according to new data from the Global wind Energy Council.

根据全球风能委员会(GWEC)的最新数据，去年美国风能发电量飚升至250亿瓦，赶超了德国，成为世界第一风能大国。

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Each of the six projects “totally dwarfs anything else, anywhere else in the world, ” said Steve Sawyer, the secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group in Brussels.

世界风能理事会秘书长斯蒂夫·索亚说，这六个项目中的任何一个都”让世界上所有其他项目都黯然失色“。 世界风能理事会是一个位于布鲁塞尔的行业组织。

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Sinovel's contract implies it will turn out 10 gigawatts of windmill capacity--twice what is expected for all of China over the next few years, the Global Wind Energy Council says.

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Yet, according to the database maintained by the Global Wind Energy Council, there was virtually no new capacity in wind in sub-Saharan Africa outside Cape Verde by the end of 2011.

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The world still needs energy, argues Steve Sawyer, the head of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group, and even if banks are slower to lend, utilities can often afford to pay for new generation out of their own revenues.

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