Report Excerpt - WWEA publishes World Wind Resource Assessment Report

The Technical Committee of the World Wind Energy Association has published the first World Wind Resource Assessment Report. The report gives a comprehensive overview of currently available wind resources assessment from most world regions, as far as available. The total wind potential of the world, as identified by these existing studies, is 95 million Megawatt or 95 Terawatt. The relation to the current global energy demand of around 100’000 Terawatthours suggests that wind energy alone would be more than sufficient to cover the world’s energy supply several times.

Dr. Jami Hossain, Chair of the WWEA Technical Committee:  “In assessing the worldwide potential for wind energy, data and information has been accessed from varied but authentic sources such as national laboratories, research reports, peer reviewed scientific publications and industry associations. Interestingly, different methods and information sources have come up with numbers that are similar in order and magnitude for different parts of the world. Be it the wind energy potential for Germany, US, Russia China or India or the entire world, the order of magnitude appears to be similar and one study corroborates the other. The report also presents a bird’s eye view of the wind resource assessment practice.”