In 2030, over 20% of global electricity will come from wind power

The Global Wind Energy Outlook 2010 report issued jointly by the Global Wind Energy Council and Greenpeace on Tuesday predicts that by 2020, wind power can provide 12% of the world's electricity demand, and by 2230 it can reach 22%, while China is very likely. In the next few years (original: early 2010s), it will surpass the United States to become the country with the largest installed capacity of wind turbines in the world.

The report also predicts that in the next 20 years, the manufacturing cost of wind turbines will not drop significantly. According to the most optimistic forecast, by 2030, the cost of wind turbines will still need to be more than 1000 euros/kW.

“In 2010, on average, one unit was installed in less than half an hour, and in every three units, there was one in China,” said Sven Teske, Greenpeace International's director of renewable energy. “By 2030, the wind energy market will be Today's three times, the required investment scale reaches 2020 billion euros."

"Interestingly, most of the wind energy industry growth occurs outside the industrialized countries," Klaus Rave, Global Wind Energy Council, said, "Before 2030, we expect that more than half of the world's wind farms will be built in developing countries and emerging. In the economy."