The European wind power industry has installed 1.7 GW wind turbines for added power generation, while Germany alone enhanced the power generation capacity of 5.2GW solely through wind energy, according to report published by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
By keeping into account all the wind energy facts divulged by EWEA, the new power capacity that has been added in the grid of European Union by the year 2014 was around 11.8GW with the help of wind turbines installation which accounted 43.7% of total new electricity added in the grid all together.
On the other hand, coal added the new capacity of 3.3GW, followed by gas that put in 2.3GW electricity. However, wind energy led towards the top most successful and growing means of generating electricity across the board.
The report further revealed that Germany secured the leading position of being the greatest wind power generator during last year by implicating up to half of the wind turbines which were installed in entire Europe. UK ranked as second, followed by Sweden added 1.05GW. France came next to it producing 1.04GW capacity of energy through wind power installations.
In spite of it, there are apparently a substantial difference between leading market and other states in terms of wind power generation. Most of the countries are not focusing in installing wind farms for improving the grid power supply. Even, most of them didn’t install a single wind turbine which constitutes Slovakia,, having a capacity of 3.1MW as a whole, Cyprus generates only 146MW through wind energy laggards, Malta, where no involvement of wind energy take place in power infrastructure and Luxembourg, which is also hampered with having the capacity of 58.3MW in total.
According to Thomas Becker, CE of EWEA, the trend and exposure of wind energy is growing at a breakneck pace which will prove to be a high ROI opportunity for potential investors. The entire Europe is turning towards the renewable energy and mainly wind energy, said Mr. Becker.
He aims to see wind energy as a flourishing market in the next upcoming years and will make a vigorous contribution by the end of 2015, purposely to those eastern and southern European markets which are still struggling because of unusual and severe adjustment in electricity generation policies through renewable sources.
