Auswind chief executive Dominique La Fontaine last week said that Australia's major trading partners and competitors were already working towards reduce their energy use and cleaning up their energy production.

She said these practices would put them in the driving seat if a global carbon trading scheme was introduced.

Spain, the United States, India, China, the United Kingdom, France and Sweden have all implemented installed wind power targets.

Spain currently has the most installed wind power of the countries at 11,340 megawatts, with an expected increase of 15% by 2010.

The US aims to significantly increase installed wind power across most states by 2020, with 3000MW installed this year alone.

India expects to increase its installed wind power from 5341MW to 10,000MW by 2012, while China aims to have is aiming for 5000MW by 2010 and 30 gigawatts by 2020.

The UK has set a target of 9% on its current installed wind power of 1944MW by 2010 and France aims to increase its 1036MW to 12,500MW by 2010.

Sweden has set a target of 81.7 terawatt hours by 2010 on its already installed 517MW.

Auswind said Australia currently had only 817MW of installed wind power.