IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-52427-9_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Summary and Conclusions

In: Wind Energy in the 21st Century

Author

Listed:
  • Robert Y. Redlinger

    (CMS Viron Energy Services)

  • Per Dannemand Andersen

    (Risø National Laboratory)

  • Poul Erik Morthorst

    (Risø National Laboratory)

Abstract

Installed wind power capacity has been increasing at an average rate of over 25 per cent per year between 1992 and 1997, making wind energy the world’s fastest growing energy sector. This growth rate shows few signs of slowing down. On the contrary, installed wind capacity has grown by well over 30 per cent per year between 1998 and 2000, surpassing 10 000 MW in 1998 and 18 000 MW in 2000. Installed capacity is expected to continue growing on the order of 20 per cent per year until 2007, with total worldwide wind capacity expected to approach 50 000 MW by then (BTM Consult, 1998a). This anticipated growth rate is of a similar order to that achieved by nuclear power between 1968 and 1977, during which time installed nuclear capacity increased from 9200 MW (similar to installed wind capacity in late 1998) to 99 000 MW, an annual rate of increase of 30 per cent (Worldwatch, 1999).

Suggested Citation

  • Robert Y. Redlinger & Per Dannemand Andersen & Poul Erik Morthorst, 2002. "Summary and Conclusions," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Wind Energy in the 21st Century, chapter 8, pages 215-228, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52427-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524279_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52427-9_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.