LONDON -The world’s wind power industry is falling far short of installing the capacity needed to limit global warming, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council showed.
And the current rate of wind power deployment will not be enough to reach net zero emissions by the middle of this century, the GWEC said in a statement on Thursday. But the world needs to install at least 180 GW of new wind energy every year to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and up to 280 GW annually to meet net zero emissions by 2050, the industry group said.
China and the United States accounted for 75% of new capacity last year, as the phase-out of feed-in tarrifs and production tax credits at the end of the year drove new installations, despite challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Te hablan Andy.
Haven’t they recieved enough subsidy yet?
If you covered the whole land mass with turbines and the wind is not blowing, you have no power. It would in any case have no effect on climate at all. Anthropogenic effects exist but this is a plug for more subsidy from a green mafia.
You will never curb it with windmills. they are expensive an unefficient. Atomic energy is the only way out, specially if you want an electric car for everybody