Wind Power 39% growth in 2009. At that rate of growth Wind will surpass Nuclear in 7.5 years.

[JohnWxy]

http://awea.org/newsroom/releases/01-26-10_AWEA_Q4_and_Year-End_Report_Release.html

EIA - Electric power monthly


Wind power perCent of total power production 2009: 1.8%

Nuclear power percent of total power production 2009: 20.2%

At 39% annual growth 1.8% reaches 20.7% in 7.5 years.

Now, production of wind turbines will have to keep up and siting and installation of power lines may create some problems but even if growth slowed a bit we could see wind overtake Nuclear in 10 to 11 years. If growth of wind power slowed to 25% per year it would take 11 years to surpass Nuclear for power production.

Intermittancy of wind starts to be problem when Wind Power reaches 20% of supply within a given region. So when wind catches nuclear we will be reaching that threshold. Storage will become an issue then. Fortunately people are working on that now. CAES Compressed Air Energy Storage Worldwide

Still, it's a nice problem to have. Trying to figure out how to store so much wind power.