Energy — item 9 of 17

Wind power

Sourced Tracked by the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Energy Explained reference, which covers wind generation capacity and technology as a core topic in its energy-source taxonomy. EIA, Energy Explained

Wind power sits within Energy, the sector that powers every other endeavor on this list — a category with an adjacent, sourced scale metric: World Bank: developing countries' electricity investment need rises from $280B to $630B/year by 2035 — an investment-need figure, not total global energy trade (World Bank). Wind power is sourced to EIA's Energy Explained topic taxonomy and analysis studies, the same institutional basis behind all 17 of the category's items, rather than an editorial judgment call.

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