The Renewables Landscape - Wind at the Threshold is a report that analyses the current wind power generation landscape across key European and world markets. This report shows how improving market environments, strong demand, regulatory support as well as increased utility involvement have promoted a steady uptake in wind energy globally.

Key Reasons to Buy:

- Evaluate the opportunities for wind energy using key wind power capacity, generation, and load factor trends across Europe and the rest of the world

- Predict opportunities in wind power generation using this report’s summary of the policies, competitive landscape, market drivers and leading actors

- Understand how the booming wind industry is structured and how it is undergoing significant transformation in the face of major global challenges

This Report Provides:

- Awareness of the wind asset ownership competitive landscape and the reasons why large asset owners are increasingly integrating along the value chain

- Knowledge of the various support policies and national renewables targets and how recent proposals might undermine existing local support schemes

- Insight as to why utilities have fallen behind the curve on renewable generation and how they have recently scaled their wind portfolios through M&A

Report Highlights

The renewable energy industry is growing rapidly on the back of technological advancements, political will and subsidies, with the majority of new capacity now coming from outside of Europe. Crucially, record investment and growth has been underpinned by extremely consistent and predictable, albeit low, wind turbine power generation performances.

Utilities’ wind asset ownership remains a modest part of their overall mix whereas institutional investors and IPPs own a significant share of the world's wind assets. Heightened M&A activity and organic new build is keeping EU wind energy ownership in a state of flux at a time when the industry is restructuring to overcome significant challenges.

Policies have had a major impact on the speed and extent of renewable energy development, despite many design and implementation problems. Of particular importance is the proposed 2020 EC ‘target-and-trade’ system which intends to support renewable power in the EU but which could instead undermine existing European wind power installations.

Published: April 2008


Pages: 21
Publisher: Datamonitor