Category Archives: GWEC in press

Erneuerbare Energien

Die Global Wind Energy Association GWEC blickt auf ein solides Ausbaujahr 2012 zurück: 44,8 Gigawatt installierte die Branche weltweit. Mit ihrem heute erschienenen Jahresreport wirft der Verband auch einen Blick in die Zukunft. Die Prognose: Europa und die USA werden nicht an den starken Zubau 2012 anknüpfen können. Die weltweite Entwicklung aber soll stabil bleiben, weil Asien, Afrika und …

Scoop Business

The New Zealand Wind Energy Association (NZWEA) congratulates Meridian Energy on receiving consent for its proposed Hurunui Wind Farm in North Canterbury. The project was approved by the Environment Court earlier this week. 

The New Zealand Wind Energy Association (NZWEA) congratulates Meridian Energy on receiving consent for its proposed Hurunui Wind Farm in North Canterbury. The project was approved by …

Financiarul.com

Romania was a leader among the wind energy emerging markets in Europe in 2012. It installed capacities amounting to 932 MW, almost twice as much as the 520 MW installed in 2011, and came to have a cumulated capacity of 1,905 MW late last year. This country is the 10th among the wind energy markets in the European Union, according …

Balkans.com

The Global Wind Energy Council released its Annual Market Update with a comprehensive snapshot of the global wind industry at the end of 2012, along with a 5-year forecast out to 2017. Although policy uncertainty in the main OECD markets is a cause for concern, strong markets in China, India and Brazil, as well as in new markets in Latin …

The International News

As Pakistan grapples with energy shortages, its neighboring countries are consistently adding wind power to its national grid. China has added 62,000 megawatts since 2001 and India 11,500 MW, while Pakistan’s first 50MW wind power projects started production only this year.

Power sector expert Mohsin Syed said India and China faced even higher energy shortages than Pakistan as their …

The Hindu

Infrastructural challenges could derail India’s aggressive renewable energy efficiency policies, says a new report

India has aggressive renewable energy targets and industry energy efficiency policies, but faces significant infrastructure challenges which may derail the otherwise good policy, according to a new report by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), a U.S.-based global policy effectiveness analysis and advisory organisation.

The report titled ‘The Policy …

Straight Good News

Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide. With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon-free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have at least 1,000 megawatts. At the European level …

Kuwait News Agency

Wind energy currently supplies 30 percent of all electricity in Denmark and about seven percent of the electricity in the European Union as a whole, according to Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). Speaking to the Kuwait news agency (KUNA), he explained that the Brussels-based GWEC is the international trade association for …

ECOticisas.vom

The global installed capacity of wind power has now reached 282.5 gigawatts, found the latest annual market report of Global Wind Energy Council.

This year’s installed capacity of wind is a cumulative increase of almost 19 percent compared to 2011.

New global installations of wind power reached 44.8 gigawatts in 2012, a 10 percent increase from the new installations …

Eolus Net

El Consejo Mundial de Energía Eólica (Global Wind Energy Council, GWEC), ha publicado la Actualización Anual del Mercado que incluye un panorama completo de la industria eólica mundial hasta finales de 2012, junto con el pronóstico a 5 años, hasta 2017. A pesar de que la incertidumbre regulatoria en los principales mercados de la OCDE es un motivo de …