In 2023, despite the macroeconomic challenges faced by the sector in some key markets, the wind industry installed 10.8 GW of new offshore wind capacity, taking the global total to 75.2 GW, a new report from the Global Wind Energy Council said. The report said that the new capacity increased 24% on the previous year, […]
The latest report from Global Wind energy Council (GWEC) for 2024 found a total of 30 wind turbine manufacturers installed a record 120.7 GW of new capacity in 2023. In a year marked by continuing supply chain challenges and other issues, this was a huge achievement. Incidentally, 122 GW is the expected total wind capacity […]
Girish Tanti, Vice Chairman of the Suzlon Group, has been elected Vice-Chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) at the annual board meeting, held in Abu Dhabi this year. With nearly 30 years of global renewables business experience, he has lived and worked across Europe, USA and Asia. As co-founder of Suzlon, he incubated […]
India is expected to more than double its onshore wind and solar PV capacity by 2028 and achieve its milestone of 50% non-fossil fuel generation before 2030, according to the Global Wind Report by the Global Wind Energy Council. As far as wind energy is concerned, the GWEC report shed light on the country’s wind […]
Just when the world is grappled with renewables expansion to arrest climate change, the Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has announced that its joining the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) is developing 380 GW of wind capacity globally and helping countries transform their economies using offshore wind power. GOWA is an international coalition founded by the […]
A new report by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has said that five countries, namely, Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia and Morocco have the capacity to add 3500 MW of wind power in the coming five years if they do so aggressively. The GWEC report held that the five developing countries can add an extra $12.5 […]
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and MEC Intelligence have launched a report on “Renewing Wind Growth to Power the Energy Transition: India Wind Energy Market Outlook 2026”. This third annual edition looking at the wind energy outlook in India highlights wind energy’s critical link to India’s green energy transition. The outlook suggests that the […]
The latest Global Offshore Wind Report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) asserts that the offshore wind industry enjoyed its best-ever year in 2021, with 21.1 GW of new capacity connected to the grid. The launch of the report would also coincide with the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon. The report stated that […]
2020 was the best year in history for the global wind industry with 93 GW of new capacity installed – a 53 per cent year-on-year increase – but a new report published by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) warns that this growth is not sufficient to ensure the world achieves net zero by 2050. […]
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