Wind Turbine Power Generation | Industry Growth
The development of wind turbine power generation has been expanding during the past 10 years.
The global market for the electrical power produced by the wind turbine generator (WTG) has been increasing steadily, which directly pushes the wind technology into a more competitive arena. Recently, there have been positive trends shown by the utilities to offer renewable energy to customers. Many customers who are environmentally conscious now have the option of subscribing to clean energy such as wind energy from the power provider. The European market has shown an ever-increasing demand for wind turbines.
The installed global wind power capacity has grown to 77.317GW from about 3.5GWin 1994.
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Denmark is a leading producer of wind turbines in the world, with an almost 40% share of the total worldwide production. The wind energy industry is a giant contributor
to the Danish economy.In 2007 wind power provided 19.7 percent of Denmark’s electricity. Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s and today almost half of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestas.
Denmark has relatively modest average wind speeds in the range of 4.9 to 5.6 metres per second measured at 10 m height. Onshore wind resources are highest in the Western part of the country, and on the Eastern islands with coastlines facing South or West. The country has very large offshore wind resources, and large areas of sea territory with a shallow water depth of 5 to 15 m, where siting is most feasible.
These sites offer higher wind speeds, in the range of roughly 8.5 to 9 m/s at 50 m height. There have been no major problems from wind variability, although there is a temporary problem resulting from the connection of a large bloc of wind power from offshore wind farms to a single point on a weak section of the transmission network.
Denmark is connected by transmission line to other European countries and therefore it does not need to install additional peak-load plant to balance its wind power. Instead, it purchases additional power from its neighbours when necessary. With some strengthening of the grid, Denmark plans to increase wind’s share even further.
The Danish Wind Industry Association has just published the annual industry statistics for 2007 and for the industry, the authorities and the green Denmark it is impressive reading.With a total export of 4.7 billion euros in 2007, the Danish wind industry sets another record, compared to the year before, an increase on 1.1 billion euros or a 30.7 % growth.
All industry forecasts show that the market for renewable energy and wind power will expand at an impressive rate.However, it is crucial that the industry also in the coming years is allowed to install, test and demonstrate state of the art wind turbines.
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