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Germany’s own handful of offshore wind farms, including Alpha Ventus, opened April 2010 in the North Sea, and Baltic 1, which opened in May 2011 in the Baltic Sea, have set the stage for future expansion.

But in Germany, “the offshore sector is not completely open yet,” Dietmar Schültz, president of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) said in Berlin at the 2011 annual renewable energy conference.

Strict zoning laws – German offshore wind generator parks must be located at least 30 kilometres from shore – and limited space have caused energy leaders to look elsewhere for expansion possibilities.

“In the US, we’re getting closer to building a market, and the German companies also recognize that,” Allen said.

Siemens, attempting to insure its industry-leading position in offshore wind power generators development, has already secured contracts with Cape Wind, the premier US-offshore wind project off the coast of Nantucket in Massachusetts, to provide turbine equipment and with Deepwater Wind, a planned project near Block Island, Rhode Island.

“The offshore market is also beginning to materialize in the US. Greater research and interest is developing in the northeast region,” Albenze said. “We believe wind is here to stay and are confident in the long-term outlook of the renewable energy market in the US.”

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Achieving the goal of 1 TW of wind energy would require an estimated US$200 billion of investment to 2050, representing tremendous opportunities for wind generator developers and investors. Figures exclude investment in the transmission network and costs associated with the variability of output from wind farms.

”This roadmap provides solid ground for the wind deployment effort, with detailed technical, economic and policy milestones that will help wind deliver on its potential,” adds Bo Diczfalusy, Director of the Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology at the IEA.

China became the world’s largest wind market in 2010, surpassing the United States with nearly 19 GW installed in that year, according to Chinese wind turbines manufacturers Association.

Looking ahead, ERI’s roadmap sees capacity of 200 GW of wind power by 2020 and 400 GW by 2030. The most recent resource assessments suggest a potential of more than 2.3 TW, equivalent to two and a half times China’s total current installed generation capacity from all energy sources.

The roadmap charts a mix of onshore and offshore wind capacity, with onshore deployment in the North and Northwest dominating up to 2020. After 2020, offshore wind turbines in the East will need to increase in number, while a optimised power system and strengthened grid will enable the transmission of electricity to the principal load centres in the east from increasing capacity in the Northwest.

The system integration of these relatively high shares of wind power will remain one of the major challenges to this effort.

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Installing this equipment may seem like an effective way to avoid future problems, but small companies that manufacture wind turbines will struggle to pay the additional costs. Anyway, does this equipment guarantee that wind turbine operators would never again experience a voltage dip that jolts the power grid? Perhaps not, as revealed by Qin Haiyon, secretary-general of the China Wind Energy Association. He told the China Daily, “the absence of LVRT systems is not the only possible reason for the system failures.”

Nevertheless, there’s still strong potential for growth for China’s wind turbines sector, especially in Gansu Province. The province is scheduled to have 10 gigawatts (gW) of installed wind capacity, compared with the 5.5gW it produced in 2010.

The People’s Daily noted that Gansu Province contains the potential for additional wind capacity of 200gW. Gansu’s wind power development has transformed into a model story in China, where 32 massive wind farms are located and the region has turned into a popular site for wind power developers in China.

According to the China Daily, “the grid in Gansu is being built out in conjunction with generation facilities. Connected wind power contributes 16% of the total power generated in Gansu, compared with a national average of 1.2%.”

Hence, China’s wind energy has been struggling with turbulence this year, but a bright outlook for the sector remains in the forecast. Every industry has dealt with ups and downs in the market, but China’s wind energy won’t get blown away by a bad turn of events so long as it adapts to changing economic and political conditions. China still needs wind farms to produce energy to meet growing domestic demand.

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Developing countries invested more in renewable energy than their developed counterparts for the first time last year, according to a report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Investment in large-scale renewable projects such as solar and wind power generation farms totalled $72 billion in the developing world, outstripping industrialised economies by $2 billion in 2010. China accounted for 70 per cent, pumping $50 billion into clean energy projects, mostly in the form of wind technology. Excluding the BRIC countries, the Middle East and Africa saw the biggest jump in investment, doubling to $5 billion.
Udo Steffens, president of the Frankfurt School of Management that collaborated with UNEP on the report, said the trend was likely to continue: “The investment activity in the developing world is not only leading to innovations in renewable energy technologies” he said. “It home wind turbines will also open up new markets, as first mover investors are facilitating a range of new business models supporting entrepreneurship in the developing world”.
With Chinese investment soaring, Europe may be in danger of falling away. Chinese companies have leapfrogged the west as leading producers of solar panels and wind turbines over the last two years but positive growth is not matched on the continent, where investment in large-scale renewable projects was down 22% from 2009. In contrast to the developing economies, European green investment was concentrated on smaller scale projects such as rooftop solar installations in Germany.
However, in a record year for renewables, worldwide investment reached $211 billion, up a third on 2009. Green energy now accounts for over 5% of the world’s total power generation but is still below the targets of most developed nations. The EU has a base target of 20 per cent of total power generation from renewables by 2020.
The report also predicts further drops in the costs of solar and wind technologies. Wind turbine prices have dropped 18 per cent per megawatt in the last two years but the low price of natural gas continues to hurt the green sector. Competition from wind generators burning cheap gas contributed to a drop in clean energy share prices of nearly 15 per cent and M&A in the form of takeovers and acquisitions of windfarms, also fell 10 per cent in 2010.

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European wind energy association (EWEA) called for eu members strengthen cooperation, and make the investment in renewable energy double.

EWEA found sea wind power facilities from 2009 582MW improve by 2010, and 883M land wind power facilities (8.4 GW) than in 2009 (9.7 GW) have fallen 13.9%.

Compared with 2009, with new wind power turbines facilities not change, a total investment of $13 billion euros, this is due to maritime wind power generation can have a large share. However, 2010 new Settings ability (9.3 GW) than in 2009 (10.3 GW) reduced by 10%.

Romania, Poland and belarus land wind turbines  manufacturers market remarkable growth does not cover the Spanish, German and British new land facilities of decline. Offshore wind strong market development to Britain, Denmark and Belgium for lead.

The 2010 European renewable electricity generating capacity of the total market, including wind, solar, hydraulic and biomass,’s record from 2009 17.5 GW growth by 2010 22.6 GW, rose 31%. Renewable energy accounted for general new facilities to 41%.

The 2010 European wind power facilities of new power generation capacity 17%. The eu continues from the small wind generators fuel oil and nuclear power transfer. 2010 new Settings gas power generation capacity, and 28GW 2009 GW, gas accounted for for 6.6 2010 new all the electricity generating capacity 51%.

By the end of the decade, setting of wind power generation capacity to produce electricity 181 TWh (year for 163 TWh), can meet the entire eu electricity consumption of 5.3 percent (2009 is 4.8).

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However it wasn’t until the first oil crisis hit in 1973 that the Danes realised the potential and importance of this new source of energy.

“The Danes realised that the oil-producing countries could politically use their oil to pressure the West,” Geertsen said.

It was from here that the Danish wind power genenerators industry grew.

Although it started as a blacksmith shop on the barren and windswept west coast of Denmark, in the small village of Lem, the company of Vestas is now the world’s leading producer of wind turbines.

It began producing wind turbines in 1978 and by the late 1990s it had over 22.1 percent of the global wind power measured in megawatt.

In 2004, Vestas merged with NEG Micon, Denmark’s second-largest wind turbine maker, to form the world’s largest wind turbine company with the lion’s share of more than 32 percent of the global market.

“Growth and reducing your energy consumption is possible. Since 1980, Denmark has had an increase in its economy by about 80 percent. At the same time, our energy consumption is more or less stable, and our carbon dioxide emissions have also been more or less stable,” Lykke Friis, Denmark’s climate and energy minister, told Xinhua during the Global Green Growth conference held last month in Copenhagen.

“It is possible to do both and that is the core lesson one can learn from Denmark. We need to transform and adapt to more low-carbon growth.”

In 1989, China’s Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company bought 13 150-kW wind turbines from Denmark. It has since grown into one of the largest wind turbine producers in the world, accounting for 7.2 percent of the world market, a report from consulting house BTM Consult showed.

Vestas opened business in China wind turbines in 2006, and there are currently six production facilities there. In its 2009 annual report, it hailed China’s great potential in wind power development.

It has increased investment in China to more than 3 billion yuan (about $439 million), while China became Vestas’ second largest market worldwide in terms of delivered megawatt capacity in 2010.

Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel recently also called for more small wind turbines policy support for clean energy among the G20 countries to combat climate change and generate more green growth and more green jobs.

“Creating green jobs on a massive scale is a two-way street. Give us the policy frameworks, and we will give you the results. We will make the investment, we will take the risks, and we will create the jobs,” he said.

In China alone, Vestas currently employs more than 2,000 people, and over 20,000 around the world.

This article was written by Chinese news agency Xinhua News.

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Vestas 10 as the world’s largest supplier of wind turbine equipment, the head of the global total market share last year, accounting for 23.5%, of which 42% of offshore wind power. 65 countries on five continents and regions, more than 40,000 wind turbines installed, generating capacity of these fans more than 6 million MWh / year, equivalent to the entire annual electricity consumption in Spain. Vestas sales in China in recent years has steadily increased. Vestas 2006 the cumulative installed capacity in China is only 455 units to 2009 has reached 2042 units, accounting for 8% of China’s total installed capacity.

Recently, Vestas Wind Technology (China), Xu Kan, vice president of an interview in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, said Vestas cooperation with China has been a long time, mainly related to the design and manufacture of fans and the domestic construction industry chain , the development of wind turbine generator and grid coordinate joint research and share the experience of offshore wind power and wind power generators and University of Cooperative Education and other senior professionals in the industry, while the grid compatibility, product optimization, offshore wind power and other aspects of research and development. History of good cooperation of both sides on the basis of finding more opportunities to provide the latest products in Gansu.

Kan also said the CD Xu, Vestas Wind Technology (China) Company is very optimistic about the development of wind power market in Jiuquan, the company will cooperate in Jiuquan City as soon as possible preliminary work. According to him, at the end of the year, Vestas has built in 7 factories in China, including Hu and Hao special integrated factory and set up 05 purchasing center in Shanghai, Tianjin,wnd generators five Vestas plant has become the world’s largest integrated production base. Vestas has been made this year, Datang (Yumen) New Energy Group Co., Ltd. sold the 58 V52-850 千瓦 type tunnel fan

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In 2007, wind energy increased more than any other power generating technology in the EU. The growth in installed wind capacity has been matched by an increase in related jobs. According to ‘Wind at Work’, t he sector employed 154,000 people in 2007 – 108,600 in direct jobs and the rest indirectly.

In terms of job profiles, the report shows that wind turbine manufacturers are the main employers, with 37% of all direct jobs, followed by component manufacturers and project developers. Where the Member States are concerned, currently 75% of all direct wind energy jobs are to be found in the three ‘pioneer’ countries of Denmark, Germany and Spain, but other countries, such as France, the UK and Italy are now beginning to catch up.

“‘Wind at Work’ reveals the vast potential of the wind energy industry as a source of employment that can bring real long-term benefits to European economies” said Christian Kjaer, EWEA Chief Executive.

Journalists who came to the press launch, held at Pauwels International in Belgium – a company that specialises in making transformers for wind turbines – were able to ask questions of Kjaer and Francis Robberechts,Vice President of CG Power EMEA. They were then taken on an exclusive tour of the Pauwels factory to see an example of direct jobs in the sector.

Robberechts spoke of the importance of the wind energy sector for his company. “Wind energy is an important contributor to Pauwels’ workforce – 20-30% of the 1,000 employees at our Belgium site are engaged on long-term wind energy projects”, he said.

Wind energy can give a huge boost to economic welfare, offering greater energy independence, lower energy costs, reduced fuel price risks, improved competitiveness, technology exports and new jobs. ‘Wind at Work’ focuses on just one of the many economic benefits of the industry, revealing the full extent of the effect that supporting and developing wind energy has on employment in the EU.

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