British think tank: US and India rank last in wind power progress, China and Europe dominate
2024-08-10
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According to the Associated Press report on the 8th, a report released by Ember, an energy think tank headquartered in London, UK, on the same day showed that last year's United Nations Climate Change Conference set a goal of tripling global wind power generation, but it is still a long way from achieving this goal.
The report mentioned that at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference last December, the vast majority of countries agreed to triple the global installed capacity of renewable energy by 2030. The International Energy Agency and other agencies said that to achieve this goal, wind power generation must triple.
Wind turbine data map Source: Visual China
British think tank Ember examined the situation in 70 countries and regions such as the European Union, which together account for 99% of the total existing wind power generation, and predicted that in the next six years, based on 2022 data as a baseline, the total wind power generation in these countries and regions will double, not triple.
The report looked at both onshore and offshore wind power. "Governments lack ambition for wind power, especially onshore wind power. Wind power is not getting enough attention," said Altieri, an analyst at the think tank.
The report also looked at the progress of countries in meeting their targets. The United States ranked last in terms of the gap between the set targets and the actual wind energy projects developed, with a gap of 100 gigawatts, which is enough to power more than 30 million homes. The second-to-last is India, with a gap of more than 30 gigawatts. Analysts pointed out that despite its considerable wind energy potential, only 4% of India's electricity supply comes from wind energy.
Brazil and Finland are leading the way by this measure, with wind capacity expected to exceed their targets by 15 and 11 GW, respectively. The report is based on data from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Brian O'Callaghan, a principal researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, said that technology is key, and generally speaking, the taller the wind turbine, the more electricity it can produce. In the past two decades, "technology has made great progress, and turbines have become taller and taller, especially offshore turbines," but he said, "most coastal countries have hardly developed offshore wind energy resources, and the UK is a typical example."
The report said some countries have large wind resource potential but have barely started building wind turbines. Altieri pointed to Russia, Japan and South Korea as countries in this category. She also expected Europe and China to continue to dominate in expanding wind power capacity.
The report points out that forecasts from the International Energy Agency, the Global Wind Energy Council and research organization Bloomberg New Energy Finance all agree that by 2030, global wind power capacity will reach about 2,100 gigawatts, a figure close to the sum of the national targets currently set by various countries.
However, the achievement of this overall goal relies heavily on China’s massive wind power capacity additions. Although China accounts for 37% of the global wind power target, it is expected to account for more than 50% of the world’s new wind power capacity between 2024 and 2030. The report points out that China is performing better than expected in meeting its own goals, with wind power capacity expected to nearly triple by 2030 compared to 2022.#Deep Good Articles Project#
