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ENDNOTES 02 MARKET AND INDUSTRY TRENDS - WIND POWER<br />
Germany, January 2016, p. 1, https://www.wind-energie.de/sites/<br />
default/files/attachments/page/statistics/20160127-factsheetstatus-land-based-wind-energy-development-germany-2015.<br />
pdf. Added (gross) 6,013 MW for a year-end total of 44,947 MW,<br />
from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 11; added a national record of 5,926<br />
MW, from FTI Consulting, op. cit. note 1, Demand-Side Analysis,<br />
p. 1; added 4,919 MW for a total of 45,192 MW, from WWEA, op.<br />
cit. note 1.<br />
45 EWEA, op. cit. note 8, p. 10; Deutsche WindGuard, op. cit. note<br />
44.<br />
46 Wind power generated 87,975 GWh in 2015, up from 57,357<br />
GWh in 2014, for an increase of over 53%, based on data from<br />
Working Group on Renewable Energy-Statistics (AGEE-Stat)<br />
and BMWi, Zeitreihen zur Entwicklung der erneuerbaren<br />
Energien in Deutschland (Berlin: February 2016), p. 7, http://<br />
www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/<br />
zeitreihen-zur-entwicklung-der-erneuerbaren-energien-indeutschland-1990-2015.pdf.<br />
Reasons for increase from BMWi,<br />
Erneuerbare Energien in Deutschland, op. cit. note 44.<br />
47 EWEA, op. cit. note 8, p. 4. Poland added 1,266 MW for a total of<br />
5,100 MW, France added 1,073 MW for a total of 10,369 MW and<br />
the UK added 1,201 MW for a total of 13,453 MW, all from FTI<br />
Consulting, op. cit. note 1, Demand-Side Analysis, pp. 2, 7. Poland<br />
added 1,266 MW for a total of 5,100 MW, France added 997 MW<br />
for a total of 10,293 MW and the UK added 1,174 MW for a total<br />
of 13,614 MW, from WWEA, op. cit. note 1. Poland added 1,264<br />
MW for a total of 5,100 MW, France added 999 MW for a total<br />
of 10,312 MW and UK added 867.5 MW for a total of 13,855 MW,<br />
all from EurObserv’ER, op. cit. note 1, p. 6, www.eurobserv-er.<br />
org/wind-energy-barometer-2016/. The UK had a year-end 2014<br />
total of 12,987 MW, with an estimated 1,204 MW added based on<br />
a preliminary year-end total of 14,191 MW, from UK Department<br />
of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), “Energy Trends:<br />
Renewables, Energy Trends Section 6: Renewables” (London:<br />
updated 31 March 2016), https://www.gov.uk/government/<br />
uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/511939/<br />
Renewables.pdf. France added 999 MW in 2015 for a total of<br />
10,312 in 2015, from RTE Réseau de transport d’électricité, 2015<br />
Bilan Électrique (Paris: 2015), p. 3, http://www.rte-france.com/<br />
sites/default/files/2015_bilan_electrique.pdf.<br />
48 EWEA, op. cit. note 8, pp. 4, 10.<br />
49 Ibid., p. 4. See also Asociación Empresarial Eólica (AEE), “The<br />
Spanish wind power sector installs zero megawatts in 2015, an<br />
unknown situation since the 80s,” press release (Madrid: 26<br />
January 2016), http://www.aeeolica.org/en/new/the-spanishwind-power-sector-installs-zero-megawatts-in-2015-anunknown-situation-since-the-80s/.<br />
50 Across the region, 4,366 MW was added for a total of 15,293 MW,<br />
from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 11; Latin America installed 4,440<br />
MW for a total of 15,278 MW, from FTI Consulting, op. cit. note 1,<br />
Demand-Side Analysis, p. iv.<br />
51 Brazil’s woes from Vanessa Dezem, “Brazil wind-power deals<br />
fall short of expectations in auction,” Bloomberg, 27 April 2015,<br />
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/brazilwind-power-deals-fall-short-of-expectations-in-auction,<br />
and<br />
from GWEC, “China wind power blows past EU,” press release<br />
(Washington, DC/Beijing/Tokyo/Delhi/Cape Town/Mexico City:<br />
10 February 2016), http://www.gwec.net/china-wind-powerblows-past-eu-global-wind-statistics-release/.<br />
Brazil added<br />
2,754 MW for a total of 8,715 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p.<br />
11, and from WWEA, op. cit. note 1; added 2,754 MW for a total<br />
of 8,682 MW, from FTI Consulting, op. cit. note 1, Demand-Side<br />
Analysis, p. 25. Share of regional additions based on data from<br />
GWEC, op. cit. note 1.<br />
52 Capacity of 356.8 MW from Associação Brasileira de Energia Eólica,<br />
provided by Steve Sawyer, GWEC, personal communication with<br />
REN21, 28 April 2016; commissioned but not all was grid-connected<br />
from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 16.<br />
53 Steve Sawyer, GWEC, personal communication with REN21,<br />
8 September 2015; Brazilian Power Trading Chamber (CCEE),<br />
cited in Lucas Morais, “Brazil’s installed wind capacity increases<br />
45% y/y in 2015,” SeeNews Renewables, 9 March 2016, http://<br />
renewables.seenews.com/news/brazils-installed-wind-capacityincreases-45-y-y-in-2015-516207.<br />
The top states were Rio<br />
Grande do Norte (2,493 MW), Ceara (1,573.5 MW) and Rio<br />
Grande do Sul (1,514 MW), from CCEE, op. cit. this note.<br />
54 Other countries adding capacity were Argentina, Chile, Costa<br />
Rica, Honduras and Guatemala, all from GWEC, op. cit. note<br />
1, and from WWEA, op. cit. note 1. Mexico passed 3 GW total<br />
from Asociación Mexicana de Energía Eólica (AMDEE), “Mexico<br />
passes 3,000 MW milestone in 2015,” March 2016, http://www.<br />
gwec.net/mexico-passes-3000-mw-milestone-2015/; Chile<br />
added 169 MW and the Dominican Republic added 50 MW,<br />
from FTI Consulting, op. cit. note 1, Demand-Side Analysis 2015,<br />
pp. 4, 67; Uruguay added 375.5 MW for total of 856.8 MW, from<br />
Uruguay Secretary of Energy, Ministerio de Industria, Energía<br />
y Minería, personal communication with REN21, early 2016; in<br />
addition, Jamaica installed 24 MW, from idem; Chile ended 2015<br />
with 904 MW of wind power capacity, from CIFES Ministerio de<br />
Energía, Gobierno de Chile, Reporte CIFES—Energías Renovables<br />
en el Mercado Eléctrico Chileno (Santiago: January 2016),<br />
p. 2, http://www.revistaei.cl/reportes/reporte-cifes-energiasrenovables-en-el-mercado-electrico-chileno-febrero-2016/.<br />
55 Turkey added 956.2 MW in 2015 (up from 803.65 MW<br />
added in 2014) to end 2015 with 4,718.3 MW, from<br />
Turkish Wind Energy Association, Turkish Wind Energy<br />
Statistics Report (Ankara: January 2016), pp. 4, 5, http://<br />
www.tureb.com.tr/en/turebsayfa/announcements/<br />
turkish-wind-energy-statistics-report-january-2016.<br />
56 Jordan increased its operating capacity from 2 MW to 119 MW<br />
in 2015, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 11. The completed project<br />
was the Tafila Wind Farm with 117 MW of capacity, from “King<br />
inaugurates Tafila wind farm project,” Jordan News Agency, 17<br />
December 2015, and from Masdar Clean Energy, “Tafila Wind<br />
Farm,” http://www.masdar.ae/en/energy/detail/tafila-windfarm.<br />
Jordan also had additional capacity under development,<br />
from Tsvetomira Tsanova, “Kuwaiti fund to add 14 MW to Maan<br />
wind farm in Jordan – report,” SeeNews Renewables, 13 July<br />
2015, http://renewables.seenews.com/news/kuwaiti-fund-toadd-14-mw-to-maan-wind-farm-in-jordan-report-483924,<br />
and<br />
from Philippa Wilkinson, “Jordan signs wind power purchase<br />
agreement,” Middle East Business Intelligence, 27 May 2015,<br />
http://www.nsccme.com/_content/about-us/Jordan%20<br />
signs%20wind%20power%20purchase%20agreement.pdf.<br />
Jordan added 180 MW, Israel installed 21 MW and the Middle<br />
East in total added 296 MW in 2015, from FTI Consulting, op. cit.<br />
note 1, Demand-Side Analysis, pp. iv, 74-75.<br />
57 Iran had at least 155 MW in operation at the end of 2015, per Iran<br />
Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution Management<br />
Company (TAVANIR), Iran’s Electric Power Industry Statistics,<br />
Electric Power Production, year 1393 (Tehran: May 2015), p.<br />
27, http://amar.tavanir.org.ir/pages/report/stat93/tafsili/tolid/<br />
tolid%201393.pdf; plans for additional capacity from Jan Dodd,<br />
“German-Iranian developer plans 106 MW in Iran,” Windpower<br />
Monthly, 3 September 2015, http://www.windpowermonthly.com/<br />
article/1362670/german-iranian-developer-plans-106mw-iran,<br />
and from Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA), “Table<br />
of contracts concluded with private sector,” http://www.suna.org.<br />
ir/en/opportunitiestoconstruction/tableofcontractsconcluded,<br />
viewed 7 April 2014. Iran had 117.5 MW at year-end from WWEA,<br />
World Wind Energy Report 2015 (Bonn: forthcoming 2016). Kuwait<br />
is advancing on a 10 MW demonstration project, from David<br />
Weston, “Gamesa to supply first Kuwaiti project,” Windpower<br />
Monthly, 29 September 2015, http://www.windpowermonthly.<br />
com/article/1366161/gamesa-supply-first-kuwaiti-project.<br />
58 Sawyer, op. cit. note 24. Nearly 1 GW was added across Africa in<br />
2014, from GWEC, op. cit. note 12.<br />
59 South Africa added 483 MW for a total of 1,053 MW, surpassing<br />
Morocco with a total of 787 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 11;<br />
continent-wide figure of 3 GW from FTI Consulting, op. cit. note<br />
1, Demand-Side Analysis, p. iv; South Africa added 483 MW for a<br />
total of 1,053 MW, and Morocco added no capacity for a total of<br />
795 MW, from WWEA, op. cit. note 57.<br />
60 GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 11; Ethiopia also from FTI Consulting, op.<br />
cit. note 1, Demand-Side Analysis, p. 4; Ethiopia added 153 MW<br />
for a total of 324 MW, from WWEA, op. cit. note 57; Egypt added<br />
200 MW at Gulf of El-Zayt, bringing total capacity to 745 MW,<br />
from Maged Mahmoud, Regional Center for Renewable Energy<br />
and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), personal communication with<br />
REN21, 10 April 2016.<br />
61 Both the Kinangop and Lake Turkana wind projects, with<br />
combined capacity of 360 MW, were stalled due to disputes<br />
over land that have halted the 60 MW Kinangop project and<br />
slowed construction of the Lake Turkana wind park, from Maina<br />
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