But prices are already improving this year, and other trends identified in the Department of Energy’s 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report suggest that 2010 could be a low point for US wind rather than a new normal.
It’s well known that 2010 was a difficult year for the US wind industry. The report, authored primarily by Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, summarizes the main factors contributing to the fall-off in wind installations last year: “The delayed impact of the global financial crisis, relatively low natural gas and wholesale electricity prices, and slumping overall demand for energy”.
That
