Market Insight & Trends

Wind business data, trends and insights, including installed and pipeline capacity, supplier market shares and project development performance.

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DATA AND INTELLIGENCE

Japan

Floating offshore key to overcoming reliance on fossil fuels by 2050

Chile

Environmental red tape and transmission bottleneck threaten wind potential

India

Ambitious targets drive growth amid grid, admin and cost pressures

Netherlands

Positive progress but Dutch policy at risk after anti-wind party election victory

Research

Manufacturers receive stock market boost

WORLDWIDE: Some of the world's biggest turbine manufacturers are limping back to health with a vote of confidence from the stock markets, according Windpower Monthly's Windicator.

Windicator: Capacity Analysis

Although 3GW of new capacity has been added since our last report, there are now signs of a slowdown in the rate of worldwide growth.

Windicator quarterly update: industry share price performance

The wind power industry's miserable start to 2010 continued into the second quarter as a slew of weak earnings figures meant that stocks continued to haemorrhage value.

Massive growth but little impact on global supply

Global wind power capacity will more than treble to 58,000 MW within five years -- and it will increase to 145,000 MW by 2010. The projection for the decade represents an eightfold growth in capacity, but even then wind will only provide 1.78% of the predicted world electric energy output in ten years' time. These are just some of the many conclusions reached by Danish company BTM Consult in its latest World Market Update, the fifth in an annual series on international wind energy development.