The European offshore wind market dynamics are informing how the rest of the world will likely move from an incentives perspective.

Navigant Research details the global market for light duty vehicles, including light duty hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles (HEVs, PHEVs, and BEVs), or plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)

A report from Navigant Research examines the global market for next-generation advanced batteries in the transportation and grid-tied stationary energy storage sectors, with forecasts for capacity by region, chemistry, and revenue, through 2025.

PEVs, such as the Chevy Bolt, provide advantages over conventional internal combustion engine-powered vehicles, including cost reductions related to vehicle operation and maintenance and the convenience of forgoing gas stations, oil changes, and emissions tests.

A report from Navigant Research provides an overview of issues facing utilities as they seek to integrate energy storage, including strategies and examples from countries around the world.

China continued to deploy wind power at a remarkable rate, installing an estimated 23.3 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, a 45% increase over 2013. China accounted for 45% of the 51 GW installed globally in 2014, representing $94.6 billion in revenue. This is the most wind ever installed by a single country in a single year,…

A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for energy storage enabling technologies (ESETs) across four distinct market segments: utility-scale storage, community storage, residential storage, and commercial storage, including global market forecasts through 2024. The supporting technologies associated with energy storage systems include power conversion (primarily focused on inverters), system-level software and controls,…

A new report from Navigant Research covers developments in the wind energy sector during 2014, including an analysis of the important changes in the industry over the last three years and the global market forecasts through 2019. Fueled by the policy-driven acceleration of installations in three key countries—China, Germany, and the United States—the global wind…

Editor’s note: This article, from Business Wire News, reports that automakers have yet to agree on battery performance standards. But that problem will be overcome. The good news for the wind industry is that when EV revenues get even half way to $24 billion, EVs will make demands on utilities for more power for recharging…

More than 1,300 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid—particularly in key markets within North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific. As grid operators adapt to increasing levels of variable generation on their systems,…

This article comes from consulting firm Navigant and is written by Richard Martin. The electricity loads being served by today’s alternating current power grids are increasingly natively direct current, at the end-use level. In fact, according to some estimates, approximately 80 percent of the power loads in commercial and residential structures are now dc. Along…

Big changes are underway within the wind forecasting market, with the growing adoption of remote sensing technologies – including sound detection and ranging (sodar) and light detection and ranging (lidar) – that augment traditional meteorological (met) towers and anemometry. As turbine hub heights rise to 100 meters, standard met towers alone will not suffice for…

Navigant Research announced that it has released its annual BTM wind report International Wind Energy Development: World Market Update 2012. The 180+ page report, World Market Update 2012, is the 18th edition of this annual wind-energy-market report. It includes more than 80 tables, charts and graphs illustrating global wind market development, as well as a wind market forecast…