Globally, the undisputed leader in installed power of wind energy is China, whose capacity is more than 168.7 gigawatts (GW,) each time with more advantage on the second, the United States. This one that loses ground due to the decisions of the Trump government, with an installed capacity of 82.1GW.
At Windaba's annual show in South Africa, Steve Sawyer, the Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) mentioned that awaits a spectacular end of 2017.
According to his estimates, the year could end between 530 GW and 540 GW of wind power installed worldwide.
When asking about perspectives from other countries, the secretary pointed out “Mexico, Brazil and South Africa continue to be prominent markets. We still have a lot of faith in these markets. " India continues to improve and surpassed Spain for a couple of years within the 10 most productive in the world, and is likely to continue despite the recovery of the Spanish market.
Furthermore, Germany and Turkey are also growing at a important wayAnd the Netherlands made it into the top ten for the first time in 20 years, thanks to its strength in offshore offshore wind power.
If you look at Europe, the leader in terms of greater penetration of wind energy is Denmark, with 40% of the country's energy coming from wind.
Looking at other continents like South America, Argentina would have to be a big bet, with the massive implantation of generators in Patagonia. In fact, cumulative installed capacity is expected to reach more than 800 GW by the end of 2021.
Sawyer, who will visit several South American countries in February 2018 to participate in the Mexico Windpower 2018 Expo and Congress, organized by the Mexican Wind Energy Association (AMDEE), the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and trade fair and congress operator EJ Krause Tarsus de México, said that currently 29 markets now have more than 1 GW of installed capacity, and 9 of them already have more than 10GW of installed capacity.
He also added that the evolution of technology important, but not spectacular, except for some developments in offshore offshore wind power.
Future
Several mega electricity auctions are being carried out in several countries of the world, such as Spain or Mexico, with multimillion-dollar investments. This will surely improve the figures discussed above in the next 2 or 3 years.
Despite China's absolute leadership, the world's largest wind farms They can not be found in their territory, where are they?
Largest wind farms in the world
8 of the 10 largest wind farms in the world are located in the United States, of which five are located in Texas. Also, between in the TOP 10 there is only one offshore wind farm, being all the others terrestrial. We are going to see the 3 biggest ones, you can see a complete classification in the following link
1. Alta Wind Energy Center:
El Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC, Alta Wind Energy Center) located in Tehachapi, in California, United States, is currently the largest wind farm in the world, with an operating capacity of 1.020 MW. The onshore wind farm is operated by Terra-Gen Power engineers, who are currently immersed in a new expansion to increase the capacity of the wind farm to 1.550 MW.
2. Shepherds Flat Wind Farm:
It is located near Arlington, in eastern Oregon, in the United States, it is the second largest wind farm in the world with an installed capacity of 845 MW.
Developed by Caithness Energy engineers, the facility covers more than 77 km² between Gilliam and Morrow counties. The project, developed by the engineers of Caithness Energy in an area of more than 77 km² between Gilliam and Morrow counties, construction began in 2009 at an estimated cost of $ 2000 billion.
The park is made up of 338 GE2.5XL turbines, each with a nominal capacity of 2,5 MW.
3. Roscoe Wind Farms:
El Roscoe Wind Farm is near Abilene in Texas, United States, is currently the third largest wind farm in the world with an installed capacity of 781,5 MW, developed by E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) engineers. Its construction was carried out in four phases between 2007 and 2009, covering an area of 400 km² of farmland.
Specifically, the first phase included the construction of 209 Mitsubishi turbines of 1 MW, in the second phase 55 Siemens turbines of 2,3 MW were installed, while the third and fourth phases were integrated 166 GE turbines of 1,5 MW and 197 turbines Mitsubishi of 1 MW respectively. Total, 627 separate wind turbines were installed at a distance of 274 meters, which began operating together at full capacity since October 2009.