Worldwide Airborne Wind Turbines Industry to 2026 – Low Maintenance of Wind Energy Technologies is Driving Growth – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Airborne Wind Turbines Market – Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 – 2026)” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
Airborne Wind Turbine Market registered a CAGR of 8.7% over the forecast period of 2021-2016.
Companies Mentioned
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Nordex SE
- Enercon GmbH
- GE Power
- Siemens AG
- Senvion S.A.
- Goldwind
- United Power Inc
- Envision Energy
- Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Key Market Trends
Offshore Application to Have Substantial Growth in the Airborne Wind Turbines Market
- The increasing size of wind turbines has helped reduce the cost of wind energy to the point that it is economically competitive with fossil-fuel alternatives in some areas. New research published in the journal Nature Energy hints that offshore turbines have the opportunity to grow, offering the promise that this already-mature energy technology will see more lowering costs in the future. Offshore wind farms have helped set up wind energy harvesting farms on the water surface. Larger turbines are on the horizon, allowing a further decrease in the price of wind energy on land and offshore.
- Offshore turbines will continue to grow, with most projects in planning today expecting to use turbines in the 6-8 MW range. In part, this is owing to the easier logistics of transporting massive components by sea. But, in addition, the non-turbine costs of building offshore wind plants (and especially the cost of the foundation and installation) are immense. Reducing those costs on a per-MW basis through growth in turbine size is a decided advantage.
- Offshore wind is supposed to see more dramatic changes, with 11 MW turbines being constantly deployed in fixed-bottom applications by 2030. Offshore turbines go well past current commercial product offerings, which broadly focus on turbines 8 MW and below, but are consistent with the plans of significant manufacturers to have prototypes of 10+ MW turbines by 2020. For instance, turbines stationed in North America are anticipated to be somewhat smaller than in Europe (9 MW), perhaps reflecting the fact that North America is currently lagging Europe in offshore development.
Europe Dominates the Airborne Wind Turbines Market
- Europe installed 11.7 GW (10.1 GW in EU-28) of new wind energy in 2018. This is a 32% decrease in 2017 annual installations. 9 GW was onshore, and 2.65 GW were offshore. Europe decommissioned 0.4 GW of wind capacity, almost all of which was onshore wind. Europe decommissioned 0.4 GW of wind turbines. So the net increase in Europe’s wind energy capacity in 2018 was 11.3 GW. With a total installed capacity of 178.8 GW in the EU, wind energy remains the second largest form of power generation capacity in the EU-28 and is likely to overtake natural gas installations in 2019. Wind power installed more capacity than any other form of power generation in the EU in 2018. It accounted for 48% of total power capacity installations.
- The size and type of airborne wind turbines installed in Europe varied significantly between countries. On average, the most powerful onshore wind turbines were installed in Norway, with an average rating of 3.6 MW. Lithuania and Greece had the lowest average power rating: 2 MW. The weighted average onshore turbine size was 2.7 MW. In 2018 the average rated capacity of newly installed offshore turbines was 6.8 MW, 15% larger than in 2017. The largest turbine in the world was installed in the United Kingdom. Two V164-8.8 MW from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, with a rotor diameter of 164m, was connected at the European Offshore Wind Development Centre (EOWDC) wind farm.
- Wind energy investments in 2018 continued the trend of geographical diversification. The top 3 investor countries owned only 43% of FID announcements in 2018. This compares to 64% in 2017 and 73% in 2016. Investments in non-EU countries have also increased to a total of EUR 5.1bn. This was a 75% increase in 2017 and represented 19% of the new announced FIDs. The United Kingdom was the biggest investor in 2018. They generated a total financing activity of EUR 5.9bn for the construction of new onshore and offshore wind farms. This accounts for 22% of the total wind energy investments made in 2018.
Key Topics Covered:
1 INTRODUCTION
2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
4 MARKET DYNAMICS
4.1 Market Overview
4.2 Introduction to Market Drivers and Restraints
4.3 Market Drivers
4.3.1 Ever-growing Consumption of Electricity in Emerging Economies
4.3.2 Low Maintenance of Wind Energy Technologies
4.4 Market Restraints
4.4.1 Cost of Building and Installing Turbines
4.5 Industry Attractiveness – Porter’s Five Force Analysis
5 MARKET SEGMENTATION
5.1 By Technology
5.2 By Application
5.3 Geography
6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
6.1 Company Profiles
7 INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
8 MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE TRENDS
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