Global Wind Power Capacity Reaches 1 TW After 40 Years

After a 40-year effort, global installed wind power capacity reached 1 terawatt this month, but 2 TW will likely be achieved in less than seven years.
The Global Wind Energy Council uses 40 years as the benchmark because in the 1970s, Danish engineers began to experiment with designs that now serve as the foundation of today’s global wind industry, the Electrek website reported.
Because of the global wind industry’s massive and rapid growth, GWEC forecasts that it will take less than seven years to reach 2 TW of global installed wind power capacity.
In April, Electrek reported that Wood Mackenzie forecasts that global wind energy would pass the 1 TW threshold for installed capacity by the end of this year.
Yet GWEC marked the 1 TW milestone this week and the UN Climate Change Learning Partnership also made that announcement on Twitter.
Recently-completed wind power projects in China, the US, Europe and Morocco pushed the capacity across the 1 TW threshold this month.