The wind power has the potential to supply up to 12 per cent of
global electricity by 2020, creating 1.4 million new jobs and
reducing carbon emissions by more than 1.5 billion tons per
year, more than 5 times today’s level, says a new report.
Greenpeace International and the Global Wind Energy Council
(GWEC) released their bi-annual report in Beijing, the Global
Wind Energy Outlook, which forecasts an important role of the
wind energy sector in the global energy mix. The report, which
happens to be the fourth in the series, depicts a picture of
three different futures for the wind energy sector, looking at
scenarios out to 2020, 2030, and eventually to 2050. The report
tries to measure these scenarios against two different
projections for the development of electricity demand- the first
based on the World Energy Outlook by International Energy Agency
(IEA), and the other one being the more energy efficient future
developed by the ECOFYS consultancy and researchers at the
University of Utrecht. Speaking over