2020<\/strong> was the best year in history for the global wind industry with 93 GW<\/strong> of new capacity installed \u2013 a 53 per cen<\/strong>t year-on-year increase \u2013 but this growth is not sufficient to ensure the world achieves net zero by 2050<\/strong>. \u00a0The world needs to be installing wind power three times faster over the next decade<\/strong> in order to stay on a net zero pathway<\/strong> and avoid the worst impacts<\/strong> of climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n Through technology innovations and economies of scale, the global wind power market<\/strong> has nearly quadrupled in size over the past decade and established itself as one of the most cost-competitive<\/strong> and resilient power sources across the world. In 2020, record growth was driven by a surge of installations<\/strong> in China<\/strong> and the US \u2013<\/strong> the world\u2019s two largest wind power markets<\/strong> \u2013 who together installed nearly 75 per cent<\/strong> of the new installations in 2020<\/strong> and account for over half of the world\u2019s<\/strong> total wind power capacity.<\/p>\n Today, there is now 743 GW of wind power capacity worldwide, helping to avoid over 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2 globally \u2013 equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.<\/p>\n Yet, as the clean energy technology with the most decarbonisation potential per MW, the report shows that the current rate of wind power deployment will not be enough to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of this century, and urgent action must be taken by policymakers now to scale up wind power at the necessary pace.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-Kuresel-Ruzgar-Raporu-Sekil-2.jpg\")
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