- Category: Industry News
New to the Wind Trends Bulletin is the Global Wind Performance Index, designed to provide a quick and easy way to track the influence of wind resource variations on wind industry performance.
- Category: Industry News
Building new wind farms in the U.S has added US$13 billion a year on average to the American economy over the past five years. By building new wind farms across the country over the past decade, wind companies have invested US$ 128 billion into the US economy,” said Tom Kiernan CEO of AWEA.
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Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology led Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s annual rankings with 7.8GW of capacity commissioned, buoyed by a surging Chinese market that installed a record 28.7GW last year. Virtually all Goldwind’s 2015 capacity was built in China, a market where, combined, foreign manufacturers accounted for less than 5% of market share.
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The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released new analysis exploring the potential impact of recently extended federal tax credits on the deployment of renewable generation technologies and related U.S. electric sector carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The tax credit extensions are estimated to drive a net peak increase of 48-53GW in installed renewable generation capacity in the early 2020s.
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The Carbon Trust is working as part of a consortium set up to progress the development of a tidal and floating wind energy test centre in Japan. The Nagasaki Prefecture has been identified as a potential location for the offshore renewable test site, to not only take advantage of the region’s abundant coastline, but also leverage the existing infrastructure and supply chain capabilities from its shipbuilding heritage.
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According to Navigant Research’s Wind Turbine Order Tracker, nearly 140 projects totalling over 12GW of capacity were awarded turbine contracts across 25 countries between July and December 2015 (2H 2015).
- Lithium-ion capacitors in wind and solar power generation to reach US$ 500 million by 2025
- Six innovation areas could drive renewable energy future
- Wind energy top source for new electric capacity in 2015 in the USA
- Medium wind still profitable in post-subsidy UK market
- Record Chinese installations drive global wind market past 63GW
- Research Alliance Wind Energy presents Smart Blades project results
- Wind accounted for 44% of all new power installations in Europe
- Corporate funding in wind sector jumps with a record USUS$ 15.4 billion in 2015
- American wind power posts second strongest quarter ever
- USA could transition to renewables in 15 years
- High altitude wind could reach commercial stage in or post 2017
- New York launches US$ 5 billion clean energy fund
- Record 2015 installations cause curtailment concerns in China
- US governors’ coalition teams up wind and solar
- Germany added 2.3 GW installed offshore wind capacity in 2015
- Increasing world’s share of renewable energy would boost global GDP up to US$ 1.3 trillion
- New Jersey could add 1,700MW installed offshore wind in 5 years
- SEWC and Vaisala partner on wind growth strategy
- A global supply chain strategy is critical to be competitive
- Wind energy technology continues to mature at a rapid pace
- WWEA continues support for Pakistan wind energy market
- Offshore wind O&M market dynamics in Europe
- PTC and ITC extended for 5 years in the USA
- Technology solutions are in place for 100% renewable energy future
- 2015 is set to become a record-year for grid-connections of offshore wind capacity
- Turbine owners establish global peer-to-peer platform to solve O&M issues collaboratively
- UK launches interactive offshore wind electricity map
- Wind energy can overtake coal and gas as Europe’s largest power source by 2030
- Turkey driving renewable energy growth in the MENAT region
- Target cost reduction for offshore wind energy of 40% is within reach