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36 The worldwide installed electricity production capacity in 2010 is about 5 million MW (5000 GW or 5 TW). In 2010 more than 20,200 TWh or 20,200 billion kWh electricity was generated with this installed capacity (15,16). The worldwide installed electricity production capacity consist of fossil-fuel (coal, gas, oil) power plants, nuclear power plants and renewable electricity production capacity. This renewable electricity production capacity consists of hydro power plants, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass/ waste power plants. The largest capacity is that of the fossil fuel power plants, 3,475 GW or almost 69% of the capacity. The installed nuclear power plant capacity in 2010 was 381 GW or 8% of total. Renewables have an installed capacity of 23% or 1,211 GW: 918 GW hydro power, 183 GW wind, 65 GW biomass/waste, 31 GW solar and 10 GW geothermal (15). However the fastest growing renewable categories are wind and solar. According to the GWEC the wind capacity has grown to about 280 GW in 2012 (17). ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WORLDWIDE