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Wind Energy in Spain Introduction In the 1990s, the deterioration of the global environment produced a serious impact to the development of Europe. During those 10 years, the number of natural disasters in Europe doubled compared to the 1980s. From 1997, the implementation of the strategy of sustainable development has become one of the basic objectives of the European Union, and written into the EU treaty. Due to Spain lack of fossil energy resources such as oil, natural gas, etc., so its energy demand is mainly dependent on imports. However, with the international crude oil prices, the daunting task of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the increased of national awareness of environmental protection, from the 1980s, the government began plans to strengthen the development of the green clean energy. Accordant to its national conditions, Spain focuses on the development of wind power. Spanish wind power Spain is rich in wind resources, is one of the fastest growing countries in the global wind power development. According to preliminary calculations, Spain can make use of 40 million kilowatts land-based wind energy resource. Spains wind power development plan is targeted and has been strictly enforced. In 2005, the Spanish government approved a new Renewable Energy Plan, determine the development of wind power in 2010 target for installed capacity of 20.16 million kilowatts, generating capacity of 45.5 billion kilowatt-hour (kWh). At the same time, strictly limited to an annual increase of the installed capacity of wind power, in order to effectively avoid disorderly development of wind energy resources, and ensure the speed of grid construction meet the needs of the wind power grid. The actual situation was very close to planning objectives. As of the end of 2010, Spains total power generating capacity was 103.08 million kilowatts, and among it, wind power installed capacity was 20.676 million kilowatts, ranking fourth in the world, second only to Germany in the EU