Global wind capacity additions surged to a record high of 118GW in 2023

Global wind capacity additions surged to a record high of 118GW in 2023, according to a new report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF).

The big installer in 2023 was China, who installed almost 10 times the amount of the next largest installer, the United States. Excluding China, Global wind power was only up 8% for 2023, a modest increase in comparison to other recent years.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/chinas-...tions-hit-new-high-according-to-bloombergnef/


Two Chinese companies claimed the top spots, but most of their sales were in mainland China, as opposed to the #3 producer, Danish company Vestas, whose sales were more balanced. GE fell from #3 to #6 overall.

 

How many places to the right of the decimal does that fall on total world consumption

 

That’s 118 average-sized nuclear power plants. Do you nitpick when even one of these is added?

 

Details are important. Those 118. nuke plants turn out power day and night; solar not so much, so that needs to be considered.

 

This thread is about wind, but I'll discuss a little. Those 118 nuke plants would raise your rates astronomically - the most expensive electricity on the planet. BTW, are you aware that retired EV batteries can be used for power storage for another 10-15 years.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/ev-batteries-as-solar-power-storage

A start-up company in California has found a way to use secondhand EV batteries as solar power storage units, giving the batteries a new life after powering a vehicle and avoiding a premature trip to the recycling plant

 

Yawn.

 

Concerned about “Global Spending on Wind”? All those turbines, and now the owners have ZERO ancillary fuel costs.

I have a residential wind turbine. It’s paid for itself twice over now - the gift that just keeps giving!

 

That's an irrelevant deflection from the point under discussion.

 

Zero fuel costs are the “gifts” that all turbine purchasers receive!

 

Like the EV, wind power is most suited to a local or individual role.

 

Do tell!

 

Hmmm an anonymous picture from an obscure website - yeah very convincing - NOT

 

Wind accounts for a little over 10% of US electricity generation.

What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source? - EIA

 

The data are the data, your denial notwithstanding.

 

What “data”? It is a near anonymous picture which could have been drawn by a pre schooler by the looks of it. Where did the author source that data?

 

It's shown on the graph.
BNEF - BloombergNEF

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BloombergNEF is a research organization that helps energy professionals generate opportunities.

 

10% is a lot considering it was less tha 2% just 15 years ago. And yet you called wind a "local" or "individual" power source. I posted the US wind energy year-by-year production graph in #11. Show me one other US power source with that kind of upward trajectory.

 

Repeated as a courtesy.

 

Where’s the curve - NG has increased, but not with the trajectory of wind.

 

The bars tell the story.

 

-9 is still -9 for wind, it is clear he wants to ignore that because he is profoundly biased for wind power.

 

It's not clear how much more expensive renewable energy can be afforded.
The true cost of renewable energy is quite high.
Debunking the Cheap Renewables Myth
From the EIGEN VALUES Substack
DAVID TURVER

It is clear our bills are going to continue to rise for the foreseeable future as cheap gas is forced out in favour of expensive renewables. . . .

 

Sorry, but any bias on this thread is anybody who is attempting to state that US Natural Gas is capitalizing on wind. Natural gas has been increased for one purpose in the US - and that is to displace coal. But I'm sure you'll continue with your lying narrative.

 

Gas grew. Wind did not. Case closed.

 

Per thread title, Global wind capacity surged by 118 GW in 2023. That’s the equivalent of 118 average-sized nuclear power plants!