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This seventeenth edition of the Worldwatch Institute series shows that climate change continues to cast a long shadow over the world's leading economic, social, and environmental trends.
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Publisher
Island PressYear
2015eBook ISBN
9781610916707Subtopic
Environment & Energy PolicyNotes
WIND POWER INCREASE IN 2008 EXCEEDS 10-YEAR AVERAGE GROWTH RATE
1. Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), p. 13. Note that additions and total capacity account for decommissioning of 89 megawatts of capacity.
2. GWEC, “Climate Change and Energy Security Drive Global Wind Power Boom: US & China Market Break all Previous Records,” press release (Brussels: 2 February 2009).
3. U.S. additions from American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), “Wind Energy Grows by Record 8,300 MW in 2008,” press release (Washington, DC: 27 January 2009); European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), “Wind Now Leads EU Power Sector,” press release (Brussels: 2 February 2009).
4. Figure of 1.5 percent from World Wind Energy Association, “Statement by WWEA Secretary General Stefan Gsänger at the occasion of the Energy Watch Group presentation of the study ‘Wind Power in Context—A Clean Revolution in the Energy Sector’,” press release (London/Bonn: 9 January 2009); 1997 share from Edward Milford, “Record Growth for Wind: What Comes Next?” Renewable Energy World Magazine, July/August 2008.
5. World Wind Energy Association, op. cit. note 4.
6. GWEC, op. cit. note 1.
7. “Installed US Wind Energy Capacity Grows by Record 8,300 MW,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 29 January 2009.
8. Kathy Belyeu, “Drilling Down: What Projects Made 2008 Such a Banner Year for Wind Power?” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 26 February 2009.
9. Relative to Iowa from “Installed US Wind Energy Capacity,” op. cit. note 7; more than five other countries from Belyeu, op. cit. note 8.
10. GWEC, op. cit. note 2.
11. Additions in 2008 from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13; fourth year in a row from GWEC, op. cit. note 2.
12. Revised target from Lou Schwartz and Ryan Hodum, “China’s Wind Power Industry: Blowing Past Expectations,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 16 June 2008; GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
13. GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 26.
14. Eize de Vries, “What’s New on the Turbine Market? Advances and Trends,” Renewable Energy World Magazine, September/October 2008.
15. GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
16. Ibid., pp. 36–37.
17. Calculated with data from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
18. EWEA, op. cit. note 3.
19. Figure of 8 percent from EWEA and Platts Power Vision, cited in EWEA, “Wind Power Installed in Europe by End of 2008 (cumulative),” at www.ewea.org, January 2009; share of generation from EWEA, op. cit. note 3.
20. High is 2002 calculated with data from Worldwatch database; 2007 and 2008 data from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
21. Three states from German Wind Energy Institute (DEWI), cited in German Wind Energy Association (Bundesverband WindEnergie, BWE), “Annual Balance for Wind Energy Generated in 2008,” press release (Berlin: 27 January 2009); national share from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 34.
22. Eize de Vries, “The DEWI Report: Windenergy Study 2008,” Renewable Energy World Magazine, September/October 2008.
23. Ibid.
24. GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
25. Spain’s total is according to Spanish Wind Energy Association, cited in Asóciación Empresarial Eólica, “Installed Wind Energy Capacity in Spain Reaches 16,740 MW with New 1,609 MW in 2008,” press release (Madrid: 2 February 2008); ranking from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 13.
26. Share of demand from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 48; “Spain: Wind Pushes Prices Down,” News RoundUp, Renewable Energy World Magazine, November/December 2008.
27. Deloitte, The Macroeconomic Impact of the Wind Energy Sector in Spain, 2008, cited in GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 48.
28. GWEC, op. cit. note 1.
29. Ibid., p. 13.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Wind farm from “Turkish Wind Progress,” News RoundUp, Renewable Energy World Magazine, September/October 2008; manufacturer from “Turkish Wind Progress,” News RoundUp, Renewable Energy World Magazine, September/October 2008.
34. EWEA, “European Commission Announces First Building-Blocks of a Future Super-grid,” press release (Brussels: 13 November 2008).
35. Additions from EWEA, op. cit. note 3; EU total offshore from EWEA, op. cit. note 34.
36. EWEA, op. cit. note 34.
37. Figure for 2008 from GWEC, op. cit. note 2; increase over 2007 calculated using wind at 47 percent of $71 billion invested in renewable technologies during 2007, from REN21 Secretariat and Worldwatch Institute, REN21 Renewables 2007 Global Status Report (Paris and Washington, DC: 2008), p. 16.
38. GWEC, op. cit. note 2.
39. “Installed US Wind Energy Capacity,” op. cit. note 7.
40. GWEC, op. cit. note 2.
41. “European Wind Energy Market Shows First Signs of Slowdown,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 2 December 2008.
42. New Energy Finance, “Wind Developers Eye Long-Term Gain after Short-Term Pain,” Week in Review, 10 February 200...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Worldwatch Institute Board of Directors
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Energy and Transportation Trends
- Environment and Climate Trends
- Food and Agriculture Trends
- Global Economy and Resources Trends
- Population and Society Trends
- Notes
- The Vital Signs Series
- The acclaimed series from Worldwatch Institute
- You Can Make a Difference