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215 02 RENEWABLES 2015 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT 2014,” 10 February 2015, http://www.gwec.net/wp-content/ uploads/2015/02/GWEC_GlobalWindStats2014_ FINAL_10.2.2015.pdf; Pakistan added 150 MW for a total of 256 MW, and Japan added 130 MW for a total of 2,788 MW from WWEA, op. cit. note 1. Cumbersome procedures from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 62. More than 6 GW of projects were at different states in the environment impact assessment process as of early 2015, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 36. 24 India installed 2,315 MW for a total of 22,465 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 7, and from WWEA, op. cit. note 1; increase over 2013 based on 2014 additions and figure of 1,729 MW added in 2013 for a year-end total of 20,150 MW, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 30. 25 Yielded to Asia based on data from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Wind in Power: 2013 European Statistics (Brussels: February 2014), p. 3, http://www.ewea.org/ fileadmin/files/library/publications/statistics/EWEA_Annual_ Statistics_2013.pdf; from GWEC, Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update 2013 (Brussels: April 2014), p. 17, http://www. gwec.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/GWEC-Global-Wind- Report_9-April-2014.pdf; from WWEA, World Wind Energy Report 2013 (Bonn: 2014); from GWEC, op. cit. note 1; from WWEA, op. cit. note 1; from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1; and from EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics (Brussels, February 2015), http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/files/library/publications/statistics/ EWEA-Annual-Statistics-2014.pdf. Market up 4% from EWEA, idem. 26 EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25. 27 Ibid. 28 The EU-28 added 11,829 MW for a year-end total of 128,790 MW (and Europe—not including Turkey—added 12,054 MW for a total of 130,244 MW), from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, pp. 7 and 44, and from EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25. 29 Shruti Shukla, GWEC, personal communication with REN21, 13 April 2015. 30 EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25, p. 10; markets in southern and eastern Europe continued to struggle during 2014 due to “erratic and harsh changes in the policy arena,” from EWEA, “Wind Energy Installations Outperform Gas and Coal in 2014,” press release (Brussels, 10 February 2015), http://www. ewea.org/news/detail/2015/02/10/wind-energy-installations- outperform-gas-and-coal-in-2014/; Giorgio Corbetta, EWEA, personal communication with REN21, 20 March 2015. 31 EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25; 2013 data from EWEA, Wind in Power: 2013 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25, p. 3. 32 Germany added 4,750 MW of capacity onshore and 529 MW of grid-connected offshore capacity, for a total of 5,279 MW new capacity installed, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, pp. 48–50; added a total of 5,274 MW from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 33. Germany added 4,745 MW onshore and 1,437 MW offshore (including offshore capacity not connected to the grid by year’s end) for a total of 6,182 MW, from C. Ender, “Wind Energy Use in Germany – Status 31.12.2014,” DEWI Magazin, February 2015, pp. 26–37, http://www.dewi.de/dewi_res/fileadmin/pdf/publications/ Magazin_46/05.pdf. 33 Decommissioned capacity amounted to 364 MW, for a net increase of 4,915 MW, and Germany had a total of 39,165 MW at end-2014, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 48; year-end total was 39,115 MW from Zhao et al, op. cit. note 1, p. 33; dismantled capacity was 386 MW, and year-end capacity totalled 40,457 MW installed with 39,154 MW connected to the grid, from Ender, op. cit. note 32, pp. 26–37; Germany’s year-end capacity was 40.5 GW (including capacity not yet grid-connected), per German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Development of Renewable Energy Sources in Germany 2014, based on data from the Working Group on Renewable Energy-Statistics (AGEE-Stat), as of February 2015, p. 15, http://www.bmwi.de/English/Redaktion/ Pdf/development-of-renewable-energy-sources-in-germany,prope rty=pdf,bereich=bmwi2012,sprache=en,rwb=true.pdf. 34 Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 33; Ender, op. cit. note 32, pp. 26–37. 35 Capacity totalling 1,147.88 MW was identified as being for repowering, amounting to at least 24.4% of gross additions in 2014, from Deutsche WindGuard, Status of Land-Based Wind Energy Development in Germany, January 2015, https://www. wind-energie.de/en/press/press-releases/2015/onshore-wind- energy-2014-record-4750-megawatt-rise-installations-germany; and 1,148 MW was for repowering from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 50. An estimated 1,729 MW of capacity added onshore was for repowering, accounting for 36% of newly installed onshore capacity, per Ender, op. cit. note 32, pp. 26–37. 36 Provisional data as of February 2015, from Working Group on Renewable Energy-Statistics (AGEE-Stat), “Development of Renewable Energy Sources in Germany 2014,” February 2015, p. 15, http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Redaktion/DE/ Downloads/development-of-renewable-energy-sources-in- germany-2014.pdf. Generated 55.964 TWh in 2014, up from 51.7 TWh in 2013, from EurObserv’ER, op. cit. note 1, p. 9, and generated 51.4 TWh in 2014, from Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Annual Report 2014 (Freiburg, Germany: 5 January 2015), https://www.energy-charts.de/index_de.htm, viewed 7 March 2015. 37 EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25. The country added 1,736 MW for a total of 12,267 MW in 2014, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 33; the United Kingdom added 1,736 MW (1,301 MW offshore) for a total of 12,440 MW (4,494 MW offshore), from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, pp. 7, 53, 74. Additions were down from 1,883 MW in 2013, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 30. Share offshore based on data in GWEC, op. cit. note 1, pp. 7, 53. 38 Generation from EurObserv’ER, op. cit. note 1, pp. 3, 9; figure of 9% (up from 7.8% in 2013) from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 74. 39 Sweden added an estimated 1,050 MW for a total of 5,425 MW, and France added an estimated 1,042 MW for a total of 9,285 MW, from EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25. In 2013, Sweden added 689 MW for a total of 4,382 MW, and France added 630 MW for a total of 8,243 MW, from idem. 40 Denmark added 67 MW (down from 694.5 MW) for a total of 4,845 MW, Italy added 107.5 MW (437.7 MW) for a total of 8,662.9 MW, and Spain added 27.5 MW (175.1 MW) for a total of 22,986.5 MW from EWEA, Wind in Power: 2014 European Statistics, op. cit. note 25; Denmark added 105 MW for a total of 4,883 MW, Italy added 108 MW for a total of 8,663 MW, and Spain added 28 MW for a total of 22,987 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 7; Denmark added 105 MW (down from 657 MW in 2013), Italy added 107 MW (down from 444 MW), and Spain added 27 MW (down from 175 MW), from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, pp. 30–31. 41 Rankings based on data in this section; the United States added 4,854 MW for a total of 65,879 MW from American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), “American Wind Power Rebounded in 2014, Adding Over Four Times as Much as Year Before,” press release (Washington, DC: 28 January 2015), http://www.awea.org/ MediaCenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber=7181. The United States generated 181.791 TWh of electricity with wind, from U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Electric Power Monthly with Data for December 2014 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), February 2015), Table 1.17.B. Net Generation from Wind by State, by Sector, Year-to-Date through December 2014 and 2013, p. 44, http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/. 42 AWEA, “Wind Was Largest Source of New Electricity in 2014, Congress Still Must Provide Long-Term Policy Certainty,” press release (Washington, DC: 5 March 2015), http://www.awea.org/ MediaCenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber=7294. 43 AWEA, op. cit. note 41. 44 Ibid. 45 Canada added an estimated 1,871 MW in 2014 for a total of 9,694 MW; Ontario added 999 MW, Quebec added 460 MW, and Alberta added 351 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 34. 46 Figure of 4.3 GW based on data for Latin America and the Caribbean (3,749 MW) not including Mexico, plus 522 MW added in Mexico, for total additions of 4,271 MW, from GWEC, “Global Wind Statistics 2014,” op. cit. note 23. The region added 4,291 MW for a total capacity of 10,838 MW, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 29. Data for Mexico (633.7 MW added for a total of 2,551 MW), Chile (506 MW; 836 MW), Uruguay (405 MW; 464 MW), and Peru (146 MW; 148 MW) from GWEC, op. cit. note 1; Mexico added 559 MW for a total of 2,551 MW, Chile (502 MW: 836 MW); Uruguay (470 MW; 529.4 MW); and Peru (147.3 MW; 148 MW), from WWEA, op. cit. note 1. Uruguay added 421.9 MW for a total of 481.3 MW, from Uruguay Secretary of Energy, Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), provided by Stephanie Grunvald, MIEM, personal communication with REN21, 17 April 2015. Other countries in the region where global wind turbine suppliers are competing for orders are Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, from Zhao et al., op. cit. note 1, p. 37. 47 Fourth globally and Brazil added 2,472 MW in 2014 for a total of 5,939 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 32. Brazil added 2,472 BACK

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