Tag: Global Wind Energy Council

GWEC backs ‘Electrify Now’ movement to accelerate wind and renewable energy

Stuart Mitchell

Electrify Now, a new global campaign to supercharge electrification powered by renewable energy, launches today. The initiative seeks to expand opportunities for wind and other renewables and is spearheaded by the Global Renewables Alliance with support from the Global Wind Energy Council as the voice of the wind industry worldwide. Ben Backwell, CEO of GWEC and Chair of the Global Renewables Alliance, will join business leaders and government ministers to officially launch the campaign at a Global Energy Transition and Electrification Summit during London Climate Action Week. The new international…

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Wind industry installs record capacity in 2024 despite policy instability

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Wind Energy Council’s flagship Global Wind Report released recently shows that 2024 was a record year for new capacity, with 117 GW of wind energy installed across the world. However, GWEC warned of increasing policy instability in some markets, and pointed to the need to improve permitting, grid transmission and auctioning mechanisms to keep pace with the global trend for electrification, meet countries’ energy and climate targets and lessen reliance on volatile fossil fuels, while fulfilling globally agreed ambitions to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. GWEC pointed…

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