Authors of this $3,500 report (Title: Renewables compete with conventional alternatives as the levelized cost of electricity is driven down by technological developments and mass deployments) say the capital costs of renewable energy generationare currently higher than those of conventional methods, but government initiatives and technological advances have steadily decreased renewable generation expenditure over the…
Top 10 wind turbine manufacturing companies
This report summary comes from GBI Research. Vestas still dominates as emerging Chinese OEMs provide stiff competition to global leaders. Wind power to reach cumulative installed capacity of 658 GW by 2020. With one of the fastest growing wind markets in the world, Chinese manufacturers have been quick to step up to meet their…
Global offshore wind market could be 80 GW by 2020
A report gives an in-depth analysis of the global offshore wind power market, covering three major regions: North America (the US and Canada), Europe (the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Finland) and Asia-Pacific (China and Japan). The report covers the offshore wind cumulative installed capacity, power generation from 2001 to 2020…