Offshore Wind Power – Global Capacity, Equipment Market Share, Technological Roadmap, Cost Analysis and Regulatory Framework to 2020
Global Energy Industry
The population of the world has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last few decades and this has lead to an increase in demand for a number of resources like water, food and energy. The population of the world doubled from 3.2 billion in 1962 to 6.4 billion in 2005 and is forecast to reach 9.2 billion in 2050. Natural resources such as coal, oil and gas are fast depleting and the fear of climate change is putting pressure on the energy sector to move away from non-renewable sources for producing energy and concentrate on renewable sources to meet energy demands.
The energy industry is facing challenging times, meeting energy demands in the face of depleting natural resources while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions. This is coupled with the slow pace of technological innovation in renewable energy and the political instability of oil and gas producing nations.
The total world energy consumption stood at 9,323 Mtoe in 2001 and it rose to 11,484 Mtoe in 2009. The figure below gives the global energy consumption in Mtoe from 2001 to 2030.
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Salt River Solar & Wind Invites Customers to Go Solar! at the Maricopa County
Salt River Solar & Wind (http://www.saltriverenergy.com) invites customers to bring a copy of their electricity bill to receive a free solar quote from Booth #117 at the Maricopa County Home & Garden Show on March 5th – 7th at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale on March 5th – 7th from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
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UK Overtakes Denmark in Offshore Wind & Announces Feed-in Tariff Plans
“From just 1 gigawatt of installed wind capacity in 2005, this week we will pass 3 gigawatts (GW). We have now overtaken Denmark as the largest producer of offshore wind in the world” Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown told this year’s British Wind Energy Association conference on October 21, the same day that Energy Minister Mike O’Brien visited Centrica’s newly completed offshore wind farms Lynn and Inner Dowsing, off the east coast of England.
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UK Overtakes Denmark in Offshore Wind & Announces Feed-in Tariff Plans