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Top 15 Wind Farm Owner Operators Hold over One Third of Global Assets
Official Press Release GWEC:
Top 15 wind power asset owners account for over one-third of global wind capacity
In the early days of the modern wind power industry, project development from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s was largely driven by citizen investors, first in Denmark and later in the Netherlands and Germany. Today, after nearly four decades of wind project development, wind power now plays a central role in energy portfolio planning in a growing number of countries.
Now, it is no longer local citizens, but utilities, IPPs as well as commercial and industrial enterprises that drive wind farm development globally. In GWEC Market Intelligence’s most recent update to the global wind asset owners database, the trend of power generators playing an increasingly central role as key players in wind farm ownership continues. By the end of 2019, the top 15 wind farm... ... More: Official Press Release GWEC
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