Wind
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Wind turbine manufacturers: market share over time?
This data-file tracks wind turbine manufacturers, their market shares and their margins over time. By 2025, fifteen companies account for 95% of global wind turbine installations. This includes large Western incumbents, and a growing share for Chinese entrants, which now comprise 70% of the total market, with phenomenal growth in 2025 and continued low selling…
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Wind and solar capacity additions?
Global wind and solar capacity additions reached 630GW pa (AC-basis) in 2025, which is 3x 2020 levels and 10x 2011 levels. The pace of gross wind and solar capacity additions can rise by a further 3x by 2050, bringing wind and solar to 55% of a greatly expanded global power grid by 2050. Most of…
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Wind and solar: total resource estimates?
This 16-page report estimates the total global resource potential from solar and wind. Solar resources are 20-100x larger than for wind. And more economical. Wind turbine wake losses are a growing controversy. Hence, will future renewables growth shift more towards solar?
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Wind turbines: wake losses?
Wind turbine wake losses would deprive a downstream wind turbine of 70% of its generation capacity at 350m immediately downwind of a modern wind turbine, 50% at 700m, 40% at 1km, 20% at 2km and 10% at 4km. This is based on the Jensen model and case studies tabulated in this data-file. More recently, some…
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Renewable-heavy grids: total system costs?
Renewables can have similar LCOEs as conventional generation sources. Yet ramping renewables to c50% of a developed world power grid inflates total system costs by at least 50%. This is because renewables require back-ups, additional T&D and power electronics. This 16-page report aims to quantify the total system costs of renewable-heavy grids, and their implications.
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New energies deflation: myths and legends?
How much of the market’s current disenchantment with new energies can be attributed to persistently high costs, which failed to deflate as much as hoped? This 15-page report reviews the evidence. Cost trajectories have varied. CCS and hydrogen cost more than initially advertised. Wind costs recently re-inflated. Yet, solar, electronics and lithium ion batteries remain…
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Onshore wind: the economics?
The levelized cost of onshore wind is estimated in this economic model, at 5-7c/kWh to generate 5-10% levered IRRs on new wind projects costing $1,000-3,000/kW. The model also contains a granular breakdown of wind capex costs, operating costs, and other economic assumptions for wind projects.
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Wind energy: beyond good and evil?
Wind economics are not good or bad in absolute terms. They depend on capacity factors, which average 26% globally, but can range from 10% to 60%. In the best locations, levelized costs are below 4c/kWh. Hence this 16-page note explores global wind capacity factors and updates our wind outlook by region throgh 2050.
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Wind turbine capacity factors: by country, by facility?
Wind turbine capacity factors average 26% globally. But they vary from c20% in non-windy countries to 45% in the windiest countries. And they also vary within countries, with a normal distribution and a standard deviation of 7-12%. This data-file maps capacity factors of wind power generation.
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Companies mitigating radar interference of wind turbines?
Wind turbines create clutter and blind spots on radar systems, interfering with air traffic control, ocean monitoring and risks to national security and defence. These themes increasingly matter. Hence this data-file screens a dozen companies mitigating the radar interference of wind turbines, from large listed providers of next-gen radar systems, to start-ups developing nano-scale stealth…
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