The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) is releasing, this Monday, its GLOBAL WIND REPORT 2022, a complete, detailed and analytical report of the world wind sector, which brings great news to Brazil: we have risen one more position in the Ranking of Total Installed Capacity of Onshore Wind Power and we now occupy the 6th position. In 2012, we occupied the 15th place and, since then, the country has been rising consistently.

The report also shows a very important data for Brazil: in 2021, we were the third country that installed wind turbines, repeating the feat of 2020, and behind only Chinas and the United States. “The data released today by the GWEC reflect what we are clearly experiencing in the Brazilian wind sector, which has been growing in a sustained and efficient manner, with solid numbers and an increasing importance in the Brazilian electricity matrix. It is an industry that has operated very efficiently over the next few years and has achieved increasingly better results, with growth not only in the regulated market, but with strong expansion in the free market. We now have 21.5 GW and 795 wind farms. There are already more than 9,000 wind turbines in operation and we are the second source of the electrical matrix. Considering what we already have in signed contracts, we will reach 2026 with at least 36 GW. We can still go up a little more in this Ranking and we have great chances of that”, comments Elbia Gannoum, President of ABEEólica.

In the global view, the Global Wind Report 2022 by the Global Wind Energy Council [link] shows that global capacity increased by 93.6 GW in 2020, bringing the total accumulated wind power capacity to 837 GW, representing year-on-year growth. year of 12%. While the world's two biggest markets, China and the US, installed less onshore wind capacity last year – 30.7 GW and 12.7 GW, respectively – other regions had record years. Europe, Latin America and Africa and the Middle East increased new onshore installations by 19%, 27% and 120%, respectively.

The report also highlights that the wind industry had its second best year in 2021, with nearly 94 GW of capacity added globally last year (given just 1.8% lower than the year-on-year growth rate of wind power in 2020). . The GWEC considers this a clear sign of the incredible resilience and upward trajectory of the global wind industry. However, as the GWEC makes clear in the report, that growth needs to quadruple by the end of the decade if the world is to stay on the 1.5°C path and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. is on a positive growth trajectory, but not growing fast enough or broadly enough to achieve a safe and resilient global energy transition.

“The wind industry continues to develop and perform, but leveraging growth to the level necessary to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and achieve energy security will require a new, more proactive approach to policymaking around the world. Decisively addressing issues like permitting and planning will unlock economic growth and create millions of jobs, allowing investment to flow while enabling rapid progress on our climate goals. If we continue with “business as usual”, however, we will miss this unique window of opportunity. Last year's events, which saw economies and consumers exposed to extreme fossil fuel volatility and high prices around the world, are a symptom of a faltering and disorderly energy transition, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine exposed the implications of dependence on fossil fuel imports for energy security. The last 12 months should serve as a great wake-up call that we need to decisively move forward and shift to 21st century energy systems based on renewable energies”, analyzes Ben Backwell, CEO of GWEC, reinforcing the importance of accelerating energy deployment. wind in the world.

“There is no doubt that we still have a lot of work ahead of us and we need to step up the speed of adoption of renewables. In Brazil, we are taking important steps, we should see offshore wind in a few years, discussions on the production of green hydrogen through wind farms are gaining more and more space and the free market has shown to be increasingly important for Brazilian wind power, with good growth prospects. We are in a very good moment, last year we broke a record for deployment, with 3.8 GW of new capacity delivered, which is almost double our average in previous years. And I am sure that, with offshore and hydrogen, we will have even greater numbers and we need this to face the effects of global warming and achieve net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”, evaluates Elbia Gannoum (photo).