Eurostat has now released electricity data from 2023, and it shows that 44.7% of EU electricity production came from renewable energy sources last year!* Fossil gas (aka “natural gas”) production was down, a lot. Coal production was down even more. Even production from oil and petroleum products (already quite low) … [continued]
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 11, 2022. In the first week of April, the photovoltaic energy broke records in the Spanish, French and Italian markets. This technology and the wind energy contributed to lower the prices of most European electricity markets. Negative values or the lowest in recent months were registered … [continued]
Wood Mackenzie projects that renewable energy will meet 53% of Europe’s power supply in 2030. If Europeans deliver their individual National Energy and Climate Plans, sustainable energy will command the electricity market.
The European wind energy industry invested a total of €51.2 billion ($63.22 billion) in 2017, with €22.3 billion ($27.54) of this going towards new wind farms, a figure down on the €28 billion invested during 2016, but allowing for more capacity.
Europe’s offshore wind industry has shattered previous installation records in the first half of 2015, installing 2,342.9 megawatts (MW) of electricity generation capacity, triple the same time last year. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) revealed Thursday that installations for the first half of 2015 had reached 2,342.9 MW, tripling … [continued]
The 2014 Joint Research Centre’s wind status report shows that wind energy provided Europe with 8% of its electricity in 2014. According to the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) 2014 wind status report, “2014 was overall a good year for the wind energy sector” in Europe. “The level of installations represented … [continued]
35,467 megawatts of new wind energy capacity were installed globally in 2013, up 12.5% from 2012, led primarily by China as the US and European industries stalled over policy uncertainty.
Reposted from Climate Progress: The U.S. is now the largest wind power market, and a U.S. company is the world’s number 1 supplier, according to a new industry report by Navigant Research. This is a big shakeup in the global wind market. Danish wind manufacturer Vestas had been the world leader from … [continued]
Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is now up and running. Located in the heart of Dobregea Constanta County in Romania, the 600-megawatt (MW) Fantanele/Cogealac wind farm is being run by CEZ Romania, a branch of the largest Central European utility, the CEZ Group. The project is using 240 of General … [continued]
Battling severe economic headwinds, Europe’s wind industry has picked up the pace and substantially increased offshore projects developed in the region. According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), developers connected 132 turbines to the grid in the first half of this year. Those turbines, which have the cumulative … [continued]
