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Vestas Wind Systems A/S’s 415-foot-tall wind turbines operate at the Sacramento Municipal 
Utility District (SMUD) 102-megawatt wind farm in Rio Vista, Calif. (Ken James / Bloomberg)
Wind energy currently meets a mere 1.5% of global electricity generation. 

But scientists foresee a lot of potential in this alternative energy source. Asian countries are also trying to embrace clean and green energy. South Korea is going for an ambitious off-shore wind farm amounting to $8.3 billion. This project will be executed at the western coast of the Korean peninsula taking a 
time period of ten years

Korean

A fresh-water wind farm is taking shape at Lake Erie and when completed will provide 20 
megawatts and get on to about one gigawatt power by 2020. Huge individual turbines 300 feet 
tall, to be built by GE will be erected off Ohio, Cleveland. Better designs: These are special 
gearless super-efficient turbines, with three 176-foot long blades, which run with the help of a
giant ring of magnets. The blades are longer due to strategically placed carbon fibre, and lighter too. Many moving parts like gearbox, coils and starter brushes are eliminated with resultant reduced maintenance. The giant magnetic ring array helps the turbine generate power even at very low speed. 
Some of the African regions are so hot that unless you're are accustomed to that climate it is not possible 

Kenya

for your to survive. Extreme temperatures also generate extreme winds and perhaps this is the reason wind farms have great potential in Africa. Some 365 giant wind turbines will be installed in desert around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya to create the biggest wind farm in Africa. Once completed -- tentatively in 2012 -- the £533m project, backed by the African Development Bank, will have a capacity of 300MW, a quarter of Kenya's current installed power and one of the highest proportions of wind energy to be fed in a national grid anywhere in the world