The rapid development of wind Energy Worldwide

The global market for wind turbines is expected to almost double this year. Last year, the market grew by 80% with 620 new megawatts of installed capacity.

Especially the sector of offshore wind is considerably enhanced, and several governments are turning in this direction not to deal with local responses to terrestrial wind farms.
The offshore market is expected to grow by an average of 43% per year in the period 2010-2015, as noted by analysts.

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Wind energy becomes increasingly popular
The wind energy industry has made rapid boom in recent years. While the global installed wind power capacity in 1998 amounted to little more than a total of 10.000 MW in 2005 had already reached 60.000 MW. The number is expected to rise to 150.000 MW by 2012.

In 2003 alone, new wind turbines were installed worldwide in wind power production capacity of more than 8.300 MW. The third of those in Germany, the third in the rest of Europe, and the other in the world. Europe will remain the driving force in the global wind market over the next 5 to 10 years.

The main reason for this rapid growth is the relatively low cost of wind energy compared with other renewable energies. Indeed, the cost of such technology is very close to that of energy production from fossil fuels, which paves the way for the deployment of wind energy worldwide.

Thanks to advances in technology, the specific cost of wind power has fallen by half since 1990, and it is expected that the difference between the cost of wind power and energy costs from fossil fuels will continue to decline.

Huge potential
The global wind energy potential is enormous. Only the theoretical potential sites with average wind speed of at least 5 m / s at a height of 10 meters, is set at least 500.000 TWh / a electricity per year. This equates to 35 times more energy than the global electricity consumption today.