Wind energy will achieve record growth globally over the next 5 years, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) trade association said on Thursday, as the impact of COVID-19 has only been to delay, not cancel, projects.

“While some project completion dates have been pushed into 2021 due to the pandemic, next year is expected to be a record year for the wind industry with 78 GW (gigawatts) of new wind capacity forecast to be installed in 2021,” GWEC said in an outlook report.

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Onshore and offshore wind farms in Germany generated almost 15 terrawatt-hours of electricity in December, according to the energy and water industry trade association BDEW.

The association said a total of 14.83 billion kilowatt-hours was produced by wind power in the last month of the year.

This would be enough to cover the electricity consumption of Berlin or Schleswig-Holstein for one year, it said.

However, in reality there is a lack of energy storage facilities to use volatile renewable power as needed, BDEW added.

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