ABSTRACT
Wind renewable power has, with recent technological innovations, become one of the most competitive renewable energy sources against fossil generation routes. Technology developments and cost reductions have made onshore wind power generation cost competitive against fossil power generation. Wind power costs are expected to decline further with future new innovations which should help to improve their competitiveness further against fossil options. These have led to recent strong growths in wind renewable energy applications worldwide. Globally, the total wind energy installed capacity has risen by six times since 2006. The total investments in wind energy installed capacity have risen to over USD330 billion globally. Looking ahead, the installed capacity of wind power should rise further to over 4,000 GW by the end of 2050. Details of wind renewable energy growths and new developments will be discussed more in this chapter together with international examples.
