On 26 April 2018, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its latest annual report (the 13th) on the world wind-power situation up to the end of 2017. The new global total for installed wind capacity is 539 GW, which is an increase of over 52 GW, an addition of roughly ten percent on the [...]
Power tariffs remained reasonably low in one of the largest auctions conducted by the state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), which ended on 5 April 2018. 2 Gigawatts (GW) of wind power was up for auction and the winning bids were Rs2.51 and Rs 2.52 per kilowatt hour respectively. That is not quite as [...]
Recently, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released their annual market statistics for 2017. They make interesting reading for they cover a period when kilowatt/hour prices for electricity generated by both on-shore and off-shore wind came down sharply. During 2017, total world-wide installed electricity generating capacity rose by some 52,573 MW to give a global [...]
In the recent renewables auction the UK government awarded Contracts for Difference to three offshore wind projects that had bid at surprisingly low strike prices: £74.75 per Megawatt-hour for the 860 MW Triton Knoll project to be commissioned in 2021/22; and £57.5 per MWh for the 1.386MW Hornsea Two and the 950MW Moray East projects [...]
At the second, and most recent) Indian auction for 1,000 MW of wind power, the various winners bid prices of Rupees 2.64 and 2.65 per kilowatt hour (Rs 2.64= £0.031). These are the lowest ever prices, considerably lower than the Rs 3.46 price obtained at the first (February 2017) auction, also for 1,000 MW, also [...]
This is the second and final article on community based renewable energy projects in remote locations and the problems they can encounter. This second piece is about wind power By Stewart Dalby Wind power has been a different story at a local level to other renewable energy projects, such as marine current turbines, in remote [...]
At first sight you might think that a 10 MW onshore wind farm and a 10 MW solar array would produce the same electrical power. Far from it. In the UK, the wind farm should produce nearly three times the amount of electricity over a year. Why the big difference? It all comes down to [...]