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Spain broke records in Europe when increasing in 3.522 MW (megavatios) its Aeolian capacity, the 41 percent of the total (8,554 MW) that settled in the EU, that altogether increased its capacity a 18 percent. Spain since before Germany and Denmark did has taken the leadership, indicated in an official notice the executive director of the EWEA, Christian Kjaer. With the increase registered the past year, the 10 percent of the electricity generated in Spain comes from the wind, according to the EWEA. Spain, with 15,145 MW, is the second country, after Germany, with greater Aeolian capacity available in the EU, zone that counts on a total capacity of 56,535 MW, that cover the 3.7 percent with the demand energetics of the Twenty-seven. Almost 190,000 jobs.
Renewable energies in Spain the sector of the renewable energies account with near a thousand of companies in Spain in which 188,000 people work, between direct uses (89,000 workers) and indirect (99.000), according to the Center of Reference Working Istas-Commission. The study bases in sixteen years the average antiquity of the sector. In fact, a third of the companies has been created as of 2000. The Spanish company Gamesa and the Vestas Danish were placed the year last in first and the second position, respectively, of the list of main manufacturers of aerogenerators for the Spanish market, according to announced Aeolian Enterprise Asociacin yesterday (AEE). Gamesa installed 1,670 MW, almost half of the 3,522 MW of Aeolian power in Spain during 2007, and more of the double of the 700 MW of the previous exercise. After duplicating his rate of provision of aerogenerators, the Basque manufacturer attributes 48.63% of the accumulated power, to the margin of 8.43% of his Made branch.