Power from renewable sources surpasses N-power for the first time news

http://www.domain-b.com/industry/power/20110510_solar_power_renewable.html

For the first time in 2010 total renewable energy from three specific sources - wind turbines, biomass and waste-to-energy plants, and solar power - exceeded the total global nuclear power generation capacity.

According to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011, published by the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute, the combined global installed capacity of wind turbines at 193 gigawatts (or 193,000 MW), biomass and waste-to-energy plants at 65 GW, and solar power at 43 GW reached 381 GW, exceeded the entire global installed nuclear capacity of 375 GW prior to the Fukushima disaster.

Significantly, the report notes, the annual capacity addition in renewable energy sources have been outpacing the addition of new nuclear power capacity for 15 years. In the United States, alone, the share of renewables in new capacity additions skyrocketed from 2 per cent in 2004 to 55 per cent in 2009, with no new nuclear facility going on-line.

Total investment in renewable energy technologies has been estimated at $243 billion in 2010.

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Is there in fact ever more power created from these sources or just a higher label capacity?

meaning we installed 100MW, but it only produces 20MW.