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of 1,905 MW; and Poland added 880 MW for a total of 2,497 MW,
all from EWEA, op. cit. note 21. Italy added 1,272 MW for a total of
7,998 MW, and Spain added 1,112 MW for a total of 22,462 MW,
from Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1.
28 EWEA, op. cit. note 21.
29 India added an estimated 2,336 MW in 2012 for a year-end total of
18,421 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1. This compares with about
3 GW installed during 2011, from GWEC, Global Wind Report:
Annual Market Update 2011 (Brussels: March 2012).
30 Steve Sawyer, GWEC, personal communication with REN21, 5
December 2012; Natalie Obiko Pearson, “India Wind Investment
May Stall on Tax-Break cut, Industry Says,” Bloomberg News, 2
April 2012, at www.businessweek.com.
31 Asia (almost entirely China and India) added 15,510 MW in 2012,
and North America (not including Mexico) added 14,059 MW,
per GWEC, op. cit. note 1. Europe (not including Russia or Turkey)
added 12,238 MW (EU-27 added 11,895 MW), per EWEA, op. cit.
note 21. Note that Europe lost its position as top regional installer
in 2012, per Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1.
32 Brazil added an estimated 1,077 MW in 2012 for a total of
2,508 MW and 4 million, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, and from
Associacão Brasileira de Energia Eólica, Boletim Mensal de Dados
do Setor Eólico – Publico,” January 2013, p. 2, at www.abeeolica.
org.br. The strong market in Brazil has attracted European
developers as subsidies decline at home, per Vittorio Perona, Grup
BTG Pactual SA, cited in Stephan Nielsen, “Cheapest wind energy
spurring renewables deals in Brazil,” RenewableEnergyWorld.
com, 29 January 2013.
33 Wind increasing faster than grid from Steve Sawyer, GWEC,
personal communication with REN21, 4 September 2012.
34 Mexico added 801 MW for a total of 1,370 MW, from GWEC,
op. cit. note 1; largest project from Lindsay Morris and Jennifer
Runyon, “Wind in 2012: booming in North America; tops 100
GW in Europe,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 21 December
2012. Mexico added 0.4 GW for a total of 1.5 GW, per Navigant’s
BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1. The difference between GWEC and
Navigant data is probably a matter of accounting (in which year
capacity is counted).
35 GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 15.
36 Canada added 935 MW for total of 6,200 MW, from GWEC, op.
cit. note 1; provinces from Richard Baillie, “Is it crunch time
for Canada’s wind sector?” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 27
December 2012. Canada added more capacity during 2011 than
2012, per GWEC, op. cit. note 1.
37 Tunisia (added 50 MW for a total of 104 MW) and Ethiopia from
GWEC, op. cit. note 1; South Africa from GWEC, “Release of Global
Wind Statistics: China, US vie for market leader position at just
over 13 GW of new capacity each” (Brussels: 11 February 2013).
38 Turkey added 506 MW for a total of 2,312 MW, per EWEA, op.
cit. note 21; Australia added 358 MW for a total of 2,584 MW, per
GWEC, op. cit. note 1.
39 The 13 countries include 10 in Europe plus China, Japan, and
South Korea, with 1,296 MW added worldwide for a total 5,415
MW in operation at the end of 2012, per GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p.
40. Ten countries had offshore capacity with a total of 5.1 GW, per
Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1.
40 Europe added 1,166 MW of offshore capacity for a year-end total
of 4,995 MW; 10 countries include Belgium with a total of 379.5
MW, Denmark (921 MW); Finland (26.3 MW), Germany (280.3
MW), Ireland (25.2 MW), the Netherlands (246.8 MW), Norway
(2.3 MW), Portugal (2 MW), Sweden (163.7 MW), the United
Kingdom (2,947.9 MW), and a European total (4,995 MW), per
GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 40. The global offshore market added
1,131 MW in 2012, with 66% of this in the U.K., according to
Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1.
41 The United Kingdom’s share of additions based on 854 MW added
in the U.K. and a total of 1,166 MW added in Europe, followed by
Belgium (185 MW added), Germany (80 MW), and Denmark (46.8
MW), all from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 40; “London Array: All the
Latest News and Developments,” January 2013, at www.londonar-
ray.com/wp-content/uploads/LONDON-ARRAY-NEWS-JAN-2013-
Email-version.pdf; Sally Bakewell, “Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Generates First Power in U.K.,” Bloomberg, 29 October 2012, at
www.renewableenergyworld.com.
42 All from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 40; China also from CWEA, with
data provided by Liming Qiao, GWEC, personal communication
with REN21, 26 April 2013. Note that China added 127 MW (7
projects) of intertidal and near-short capacity in 2012, per CWEA.
China added three projects with a combined total of 110 MW,
per Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1. Note that offshore
capacity was added in the United Kingdom (756 MW), Belgium
(184.5 MW), China (110 MW), and Germany (80 MW) only, per
Navigant’s BTM Consult, , op. cit. note 1. Totals differ between
GWEC and Navigant for China, for which Navigant has 329 MW
total in operation, Denmark (833 MW), the U.K. (2,861 MW), and
includes the Republic of Ireland (25 MW).
43 Cost considerations include cost of infrastructure such as
sub-stations or grid connection points as well as licencing and
permitting costs.
44 Fantanele-Cogealac wind farm in Romania, per Morris and
Runyon, op. cit. note 34; “Caithness Shepherds Flat Commences
Official Operations; Becomes One of the World’s Largest Wind
Farms,” PRNewswire.com, 22 September 2012.
45 Clients from Sarasin, “Working Towards a Cleaner and Smarter
Power Supply: Prospects for Renewables in the Energy
Revolution” (Basel, Switzerland: December 2012); Australia et
al. from Stefan Gsänger, WWEA, Bonn, personal communication
with REN21, 29 February 2012; Europe also from Richard
Cowell, “Community Wind in Europe – Strength in Diversity?”
WWEA Quarterly Bulletin, December 2012, pp. 10–15, and
from Tildy Bayar, “Community Wind Arrives Stateside,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 5 July 2012.
46 Iowa projects (1.6–3.2 MW in size) from AWEA, “American wind
power reaches 50-gigawatt milestone: 2012 sets red-hot pace,
but layoffs hit supply chain amid policy uncertainty for 2013,”
Wind Energy Weekly, 10 August 2012; Australia from Taryn Lane
(Hepburn Wind & Embark), “Community Wind: The Australian
Context,” WWEA Quarterly Bulletin, September 2012, pp. 22–25.
47 Shota Furuya, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, “Energy
Policy Reform and Community Power in Japan,” WWEA Quarterly
Bulletin, September 2012, pp. 26–29.
48 Stefan Gsänger, WWEA, Bonn, personal communication with
REN21, 1 April 2013.
49 Drivers from Andrew Kruse, Southwest Windpower Inc., personal
communication with REN21, 21 May 2011; from Andrew Kruse,
Endurance Wind Power Inc., Surrey, Canada, personal communication
with REN21, 21 April 2013; and from WWEA, Small World
Wind Power Report 2013 (Bonn: March 2013), Summary. Feed-in
tariffs in the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, and the United States
are driving the distributed-scale market. The most common is the
50 kW class, which is often used by rural farmers to both offset
energy production and for investing, per Kruse, Endurance Wind
Power Inc., op. cit this note.
50 Off-grid and mini-grid from WWEA, op. cit. note 49, and from
Simon Rolland, “Campaigning for Small Wind—Facilitating
Off-Grid Uptake,” Renewable Energy World, March-April 2013, pp.
47–49.
51 Pike Research, “Small Wind Power,” www.pikeresearch.com/
research/small-wind-power, viewed March 2013; WWEA, op. cit.
note 49.
52 Kruse, Endurance Wind Power Inc., op. cit. note 49.
53 Ibid.
54 Note that the total excludes data for Italy and India, both of which
are important markets, per WWEA, op. cit. note 49.
55 WWEA, op. cit. note 49; WWEA, “WWEA Releases the 2013 Small
Wind World Report Update,” press release (Husum/Bonn: 21
March 2013).
56 AWEA, op. cit. note 7.
57 WWEA, op. cit. note 49.
58 More than 2.6% is a 2013 forecast based on 2012 installed
capacity, per Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 1; more than
3% from Gsänger, op. cit. note 48.
59 EWEA, op. cit. note 21.
60 Unless otherwise noted, 2012 data from EWEA, op. cit. note 21;
Denmark 2012 data from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 34; Portugal
2012 and 2011 data from APREN - Portuguese Renewable Energy
Association and from Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), “Dados
Técnicos Electricidade 2012,” at www.centrodeinformacao.ren.
pt/PT/InformacaoTecnica/Paginas/DadosTecnicos.aspx; Germany
from BMU, op. cit. note 25; 2011 data for Denmark, Spain, and
Ireland from EWEA, op. cit. note 21. Spain covered an average of
17.2% of its production with wind, and Denmark covered 29.5%,
per MERCOM, Market Intelligence Report, “Wind Energy,” 5
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