BusinessGreen: Wind energy could meet up to a fifth of global electricity demand by 2030, according to a major new report released yesterday by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Greenpeace International.
The report, which looks at a number of different scenarios for the development of the industry and projected levels of electricity demand, predicts installed capacity could increase more than four-fold from 240GW at the end of last year to 1,100GW by 2020, supplying between 11.7 per cent and 12.6 per…