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Wind power reaches record 1 TW

15.06.2023

An important achievement in the field of wind energy: the world's installed capacity has reached the mark of 1 terawatt (TW). After 40 years of efforts and development of the wind industry, we have reached this milestone in clean energy production. However, according to the forecasts of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), we can expect to reach the mark of 2 TW in less than seven years.

In the early 1970s, Danish engineers began experimenting with wind power, and this research became the basis for the modern wind industry. Since then, the global wind power industry has developed rapidly and its growth has been enormous. According to Wood Mackenzie, by the end of this year, the global installed capacity of wind energy will exceed the 1 TW mark. However, GWEC notes that we have already reached this mark, and this is confirmed by completed projects in China, the USA, Europe and Morocco.

Despite an important achievement in wind power, Jonathan Cole, head of GWEC, notes that we are only at the beginning of what needs to be done to combat climate change. To avert the catastrophic effects of climate change on societies and ecosystems around the world, we urgently need to transform our economies and increase wind energy production.

The goal is to achieve an installed wind capacity of at least 8 terawatts by the middle of the coming century to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions. There is not much time to solve this problem, so we can no longer linger.

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