La production d’énergie éolienne ralentira jusqu’en 2020

Infographie : F. Descheemaekere

[Euractiv]

La croissance de la production d’énergie éolienne ralentira probablement au cours des prochaines années puisque le secteur est touché par des réductions de subventions du budget aux États-Unis et en Europe après 15 ans de construction, selon un rapport publié aujourd’hui (14 novembre).

Held back by a struggling world economy and the failure to create commercial conditions which stimulate more green investment, the report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Greenpeace International expected growth of wind power would not accelerate again until after 2020. Global installed wind capacity reached 240 GW at the end of 2011, it said, but 2013 looks like a difficult year for the sector amid a rocky environment for global financing. "Absent a new means for putting a global price on carbon, new demand growth in the OECD borne on a strong economic recovery,
or some other unforeseen development, the industry's rate of growth will slow substantially in the coming few years," the report said.

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