MAKEsays grid-connected wind capacity installed in 2012 was 48.4GW globally, up19% year-on-year.
In2013, MAKE expects new installations to fall by 7%, with growth in Asia,Offshore, Latin America, Northern Europe and the Middle East/Africa offsetby declines in Southern and Eastern Europe and North America, reflecting theimpact of regulatory change in those markets.
Windturbine manufacturers’ conditional and firm orders at the end of 2012 were down13%, in line with expectations of a weaker 2013, MAKE says.
