• News Release

  Resilience to drive US microgrid growth

  • 08 agosto 2019

  The US microgrid industry may find opportunities for substantial future growth in geographical areas that are repeatedly affected by power outages, as customers seek out resilient solutions, new research from Wood Mackenzie found.

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  Global wind turbine fleet to consume over 5.5Mt of copper by 2028

  • 02 septiembre 2019

  Over 650 GW of new onshore and 130 GW of new offshore wind capacity will be installed between 2018 and 2028. This will consume in excess of 5.5Mt of copper, according to a recent analysis by Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  65GW of European onshore wind turbines need upgrades or replacements by 2028

  • 09 septiembre 2019

  65GW of European onshore wind turbines will reach end-of-design-life by 2028. From 2019 to 2028, an average of 4GW of turbines per year that are reaching end-of-design-life will be lifetime extension (LTE) suitable, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.

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  China’s e-bus stock to surpass 1 million mark by 2023

  • 16 septiembre 2019

  Fuelled by public policy and declining battery costs, global electric bus adoption is set to triple by 2025. The Chinese market - the most promising in this sector - will surpass the 1 million e-bus mark by 2023 and reach 1.3 million by 2025, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  US wind to peak in 2020 with 14.6 GW as Production Tax Credit expires

  • 12 septiembre 2019

  Highlights from Wood Mackenzie's 2019 North America wind power outlook

• News Release

  Wind power outlook in Eastern Europe and Russia upgraded by 17% QoQ over next decade

  • 25 septiembre 2019

  An auction-triggered awakening in Poland and a growing confidence in developers' ability to comply with local content requirements in Russia led to a 17% wind power capacity increase QoQ in Eastern Europe and Russia, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Global top 10 solar asset owners now hold 22 GW of capacity

  • 04 octubre 2019

  According to Wood Mackenzie’s inaugural global solar photovoltaic (PV) asset ownership ranking (excluding China)*, the world’s top 10 solar PV asset owners now hold over 22 gigawatts (GW) of cumulative solar capacity. Collectively, the top 10 added around 2.5 GW of new capacity in 2018.

• News Release

  Advanced lithium-ion technologies on track for record annual investment

  • 01 noviembre 2019

  More than $350 million was invested in advanced lithium-ion technologies during the first half of 2019.

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  Top three western wind turbine OEMs to control 60% of market by 2028

  • 11 noviembre 2019

  After a decade of fragmentation, the top five global turbine OEMs are strengthening their hold on the industry. By 2028, they are expected to control three quarters of the sector.

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  US storage industry to build on strong third quarter with response to power shutoffs

  • 03 diciembre 2019

  Installers have already shared anecdotes about growing residential storage volumes in California, and Wood Mackenzie expects a large uptick early next year as marketing efforts for solar-plus-storage started earlier this year bear fruit.

• News Release

  Cheaper electric cars could help Tesla hit targets by mid-2020s

  • 09 enero 2020

  In Q3 2019, Tesla announced its plans to capture 1% of all car sales globally. With its current portfolio of luxury cars, the company is unlikely to meet that target by the end of the decade. However, if it launches an entry-level car priced at $25,000, Wood Mackenzie projects that Tesla will meet the 1% target as early as 2024.

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  Project delays and cancellations to dampen US microgrid growth through 2021

  • 16 diciembre 2019

  Project cancellations and delays connecting planned projects to the electric grid will lead the US microgrid market to contract 17% from its 2018 peak by the end of this year, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.

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  China’s wind repowering market to boom from 2023

  • 17 diciembre 2019

  According to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, China’s wind repowering market is expected to take off from 2023. More than 21 gigawatts (GW) (cumulative capacity) of China’s wind turbine fleet is expected to be repowered over the next 10 years (2019-2028).

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  US V2X installed capacity to double to 40 MW in 2025

  • 27 marzo 2025

  The vehicle-to-everything market (V2X) is expanding, with installed capacity expected to double to 40 megawatts (MW) in 2025, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. According to the report “Power from the people: The state of the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) market” this expansion will be driven largely by school bus electrification programs. School buses provide significant downtime combined with their reliable duty cycles and large batteries.

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  Record-breaking 1.7 GW of US community solar installed in 2024

  • 19 febrero 2025

  The US community solar market installed a record-breaking 1.7 GWdc of capacity in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, according to a new report released by Wood Mackenzie in collaboration with the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA). However, with policy uncertainty at both national and state levels, long-term growth hangs in the balance.

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  Electric vehicle adoption to slow in US with recent Executive Orders

  • 29 enero 2025

  Recent executive orders in the United States could have profound implications on electric vehicles (EV), slowing down the pace of adoption, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie. According to the report, “Trump’s executive orders unsettle electric vehicle and battery markets” policy changes have impacted the EV, battery, and raw material markets in the US and globally. The wide-ranging changes will affect everything from subsidies for consumers to funding for EV charging stations, as well as trade tariffs on imported raw materials.

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  US utilities to face significant challenge as power demand surges for the first time in decades

  • 17 octubre 2024

  US power demand has remained essentially flat for the past decade, but this is all about to change as a pending surge in demand growth will be the biggest challenge for utility companies in decades, according to the latest Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Trade and supply chain barriers delay impact of historic clean energy law

  • 13 diciembre 2022

  The U.S. added 4.6 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in Q3 2022, a 17% decrease from the same quarter last year as trade barriers and ongoing supply chain constraints continue to slow America’s clean energy progress. These disruptions will cause a 23% decline in solar installations this year compared to 2021, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q4 2022 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business.

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  Q3 U.S. grid-scale energy storage market sets new record

  • 15 diciembre 2022

  The U.S. energy storage market grid-scale segment installed a record 4,733 megawatt-hours (MWh) in the third quarter of 2022, surpassing the previous quarterly high of 4,598 MWh in Q1 of 2021, according to a new report released today. On a single charge, this amount of battery storage could power over 150,000 U.S. homes for a day.

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  Long-duration energy storage projects attract more than US $58 billion investment over last three years

  • 07 diciembre 2022

  Long-duration storage energy (LDES) projects around the world have attracted more than US $58 billion in commitments made by governments and companies since 2019. If all these projects went forward, it would lead to the installation of 57 gigawatts (GW) of LDES – the equivalent of three times the global energy-storage capacity deployed in 2022, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Solar power to become cheaper and more efficient in 2020s

  • 04 febrero 2020

  Solar system prices will continue to drop over the next decade, driven by advances in module efficiency, manufacturing, labour practices and software, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Energy storage to accelerate global energy transition in 2020s

  • 24 febrero 2020

  The starting gun has sounded for the global storage market, which is set to grow from approximately 4GW of annual deployments in 2019 to more than 15GW in 2024, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  2020s to be decade of emerging solar PV markets

  • 25 febrero 2020

  The next decade is set to deliver more of the same for solar PV, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Record amount of wind turbine capacity ordered globally in 2019

  • 05 marzo 2020

  2019 saw nearly 100GW of global wind turbine order capacity, shattering the previous record set in 2018, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Flexible power grid crucial to meeting energy transition goals in 2020s

  • 18 marzo 2020

  Over the next decade, traditional fuel-based generation will shrink as a proportion of the power mix. This will increase the flexibility needs of utility and power markets, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Coronavirus impact trims US behind-the-meter storage forecast by 31%

  • 27 marzo 2020

  Wood Mackenzie has trimmed its forecast for US behind-the-meter (BTM) energy storage in 2020 by 31% as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

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  Coronavirus could derail energy storage growth in 2020

  • 01 abril 2020

  If coronavirus containment measures continue to curtail movement of goods and people through Q2 this year, alongside an economic downturn, the market impact could trim Wood Mackenzie’s 2020 global energy storage deployments forecast by 19%.

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  India’s renewables installation could fall by a fifth due to lockdown

  • 06 abril 2020

  In a new report, Wood Mackenzie projects that India could face over 21.6% or 3 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind installations being delayed as a result of the country’s lockdown.

• News Release

  $600bn to be spent on wind turbines globally by 2028

  • 07 abril 2020

  According to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie, annual average wind turbine supply is forecast to hit $60 billion between 2020 and 2028 - reflecting an increase of 8% compared to 2019.

• News Release

  Global electric vehicle sales to drop 43% in 2020

  • 08 abril 2020

  Global electric vehicle (EV) sales closed at 2.2 million in 2019. This number is expected to drop 43% to 1.3 million by the end of 2020, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.