Changes

* The world's wind industry defied the economic downturn in 2008 and by he end of the year 2009, the sector saw its annual market grow by 41.5% over 2008, and total global wind power capacity increased by 31.7% to 158GW in 2009.* US, China and Germany together hold more than 50% of the global wind power capacity.* Asia and North America have seen tremendous growth in the installed wind power capacity over the last 6 years.* Asia was the world's largest regional market for wind energy with capacity additions amounting to 15.4GW. China was the world's largest market in 2009, more than doubling its capacity from 12.1GW in 2008 to 25.8GW, adding a staggering 13.8GW of capacity.* China and the US account for more than 60% of the new installed capacity of 38.3GW in 2009. India's total installed capacity increased to 10.9GW with 1.3GW of new installed capacity in 2009.* The 2009 market for turbine installations was worth about 45 bn € or 63 bn US$ and about half a million people are now employed by the wind industry around the world.{|border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"|[[Image:Installed capacity 2009.png|600px|center|thumb|Top 10 Cumulative Installed Capacity 2009]]|[[Image:New capacity.png|600px|center|thumb|Top 10 New Installed Capacity 2009]]|-|}