Jan 12 2011
Research and Markets, an international market research and market data supplying company declared its latest offering titled, ‘The Onshore and Offshore Wind Power Generation Outlook’.
The report outlines the developments in the wind turbine segment and improvements in rotor blade size from mere 15 meters in 1980 to the present size of 126 meters. It offers an insight on the ever changing technologies adopted for onshore and offshore wind installations, prevailing law structures and future prospects for wind power generation.
The report compares the potential of wind power generation with other forms of renewable energies discussing the investment made in wind power generation, total installed capacity, current growth potential and the comparable savings. It allows the readers to have all inclusive understanding of the existing technologies deployed in wind power generation, basics of working, performance efficiency and total installed capacity. It discusses and appraises the growth of wind power expertise, major companies involved in the growth and financial details on such growths. It provides an insight to the reader on future trends, the drivers for such growth, anticipated oppositions, anticipated growth and future outlook.
According to the report in the year 2009 the renewable energy sources received an investment of around US$150bn and achieved nearly 25% growth when compared to 2008 and US, China and Germany lead the table of the renewable energy investors. All over the world wind energy grew from a mere 59 GW in 2005 to 159 GW in 2009 thus registering a CAGR of 28%. Europe leads offshore wind installation with a total installed capacity of 1.901 MW in 2009 spread over nine countries in Europe. UK and Denmark are in the forefront with 44% and 30% share of the installations all over Europe.