France has become the latest European country to celebrate a strong performance by its wind energy industry during 2014, as new figures revealed over 1GW of new capacity was added last year. France's wind energy trade body, France Énergie Éolienne (FEE), announced late last week that 1,042 MW of wind energy came online in 2014, up from 630MW in 2013. The performance marked the highest annual level of installation since 2011, taking total installed wind energy capacity to over 9GW.

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Photo credit: wind farm in Civray, France. / Maw*Maw.