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April 1, 2008 – Vol.13 No.2 European Wind Energy Association (EWEA): Global Wind Installations Pass 100 Gigawatts. Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) further predicts wind energy to rise to 240 GW by 2012. Following another record year of 2007 with over 20 GW of new wind capacity, and additional installations at the beginning of 2008, the global wind market has now passed 100 GW according to the trade associations. Steve Sawyer, Chief Executive of GWEC said “Due above all to the stronger than anticipated growth in the US and China in recent years, and China’s emerging manufacturers, which are helping ease global supply, there has been an unexpectedly strong increase in wind deployment all round the world,” he explained. “As a result, GWEC now foresees the global wind power market growing by over 155 percent to reach 240 GW of total installed capacity by 2012”. Further out, Birger T Madsen, from BTM Consult, explained that his company forecasts 140,000 MW of annual installations over the next thirteen years, which will give a cumulative installed capacity of nearly 1 million MW (1,000 GW) by 2020. 1,000 GW of capacity will enable wind power would provide 7–8 percent of the world’s electricity demand by then.
A record 5.2 GW of capacity was added in the US to reach 16.8 GW in 2007. This accounted for about 30 percent of the country’s new power-producing capacity in 2007. In Europe, wind energy made up 40 percent of new energy installations last year. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), presented a new draft report, entitled 20 Percent Wind Vision – a collaborative technical report taht shows that it is technically and economically possible for 20 precent of US electricity to come from wind by 2030, up from just over 1 percent today. To do so 16 GW of new wind would have to installed annually in order to reach the 300 GW by 2030 that will supply the 20 percent of electricity from wind. The announcments were made on the second day of the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC) in Brussels (4/1/08)
Links: European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
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