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personal communication with REN21, 16 April 2014. 86 Figure of 70% from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1; 77% in 2012 from Navigant’s BTM Consult, op. cit. note 73. 87 Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. Other sources also put Vestas in the lead, but rank other companies differently. Make Consulting estimated the top 10 captured 68.4% of the market and puts Suzlon ahead of GE Wind and Gamesa, from Make Consulting, cited in North American Windpower, “Top 15 Wind Turbine Suppliers of 2013 Revealed,” 11 March 2014, http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/ content.php?content.12710. GlobalData ranks Enercon ahead of Goldwind, followed by Siemens and Suzlon to round out the top five, from “Vestas Wind Systems Blows into World-Leading Position for 2013 Wind Turbine Installations, says GlobalData,” GlobalData.com, 12 March 2014, http://energy.globaldata.com/ media-center/press-releases/power-and-resources/vestas-wind- systems-blows-into-worldleading-position-for-2013-wind-turbine- installations-says-globaldata. Figure 21 based on data from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. 88 James Lawson, “Keeping Wind Competitive: Manufacturing Ups Its Game,” Renewable Energy World, March–April 2013, p. 19. 89 Aris Karcanias, BTM Consult, cited in James Lawson, “Keeping Wind Competitive: Manufacturing Ups its Game,” Renewable Energy World, March–April 2013, p. 19. 90 Jennifer Runyon, “Servicing the Wind Energy Sector is Big Business for Siemens,” Renewable Energy World, 19 September 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/09/servicing-the-wind-energy-sector-is-big- business-for-siemens; Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. See also, for example, GE, “Wind Services,” http://www.ge-energy. com/products_and_services/services/wind_services/, viewed 3 March 2014; Gamesa, “Operation and Maintenance Services,” http://www.gamesacorp.com/en/gamesaen/lines-of-business/ operation-and-maintenance-services/, viewed 3 March 2014; Vestas, “Active Output Management,” http://www.vestas.com/en/ products_and_services/operation_and_maintenance#!, viewed 3 March 2014; increase value from Shukla, op. cit. note 19. 91 Mitsubishi, “MHI and Vestas Agree to Form Joint-Venture Company Dedicated to Offshore Wind Turbine Business,” press release (Tokyo: 27 September 2013), http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/ news/story/1309271718.html; Areva, “Offshore Wind: Areva Accelerates its Development by Creating a European Champion with Gamesa to Become a Leading Global Player,” press release (Paris: 20 January 2014), http://www.areva.com/EN/news-10115/ offshore-wind-areva-accelerates-its-development-by-creating-a- european-champion-with-gamesa-to-become-a-leading-global- player.html; Toray acquired Zolteck, a producer of carbon fibre for wind turbine blades, per GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 61. 92 Shukla, op. cit. note 19. 93 Lawson, op. cit. note 89. 94 David Appleyard, “New Turbine Technology: Key Players On- and Offshore,” Renewable Energy World, 1 May 2013, http://www. renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/new- turbine-technology-the-future-is-larger-offshore; Siemens in the United States from Feng Zhao, Navigant Research-BTM, personal communication with REN21, 2 April 2014. 95 Appleyard, op. cit. note 94; James Montgomery, “Wind Energy 2014 Outlook: Major Markets Recover, Battling Policy and Grid Concerns,” Renewable Energy World, January–February 2014, p. 29; IEA, op. cit. note 64; Jeff Anthony, “Utilities’ Appetite for Wind Energy Continues to Grow,” Renew-grid.com, 10 June 2013, http://www.renew-grid.com/e107_plugins/content/content. php?content.9985; Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. 96 IEA, op. cit. note 64, p. 5; Wiser et al., op. cit. note 75; Valerie A. Hines, Alistair B. Ogilvie, and Cody R. Bond, Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) Database: Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark (Albuquerque, NM and Livermore, CA: Sandia National Laboratories, September 2013), p. 12, http://energy.sandia.gov/wp/wp-content/gallery/uploads/ CREW2013Benchmark-Report-SAND2013-72881.pdf. 97 James Montgomery, “GE Wants to ‘Power Up’ Older Wind Turbines,” Renewable Energy World, 11 October 2013, http:// www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/10/ ge-wants-to-power-up-older-wind-turbines; Appleyard, op. cit. note 94. GE launched its services packages called PowerUp Software, similar to an earlier package named WindBoost, to improve the power output of each unit and the overall wind farm while introducing a 2.5 MW “brilliant” model to incorporate short-term battery storage as part of the complete turbine package, from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. 98 The share of direct turbines rose from 12% in 2008 to 20% in 2012/13, per IEA, op. cit. note 64, p. 12; their share was 28.1% of the global market in 2013, per Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. For example, two-bladed turbines are new to the offshore market, with Aerodyn (Germany) introducing an innovative two-bladed down-wind machine and Envision (China) testing its two-bladed (3.6 MW) prototype in Denmark in 2013. Aerodyn from Eize de Vries, “Offshore Wind Turbine Vendors Unveil Next-Generation Wind Power Machines,” Renewable Energy World, 10 December 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/12/offshore-wind-turbines-are-getting-bigger-all-the- time; Envision from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. 99 Average size delivered to market (based on measured rated capacity) was 1,926 kW in 2012, up an average 79 kW over 2011, from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. 100 Average sizes were 2.7 MW in Germany; 1,841 kW in the United States, 1,719 kW in China, and 1,336 kW in India, from Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1; 2.6 MW in Germany from Ender, op. cit. note 21, p. 43, http://www.dewi.de/dewi/fileadmin/pdf/ publications/Magazin_44/07.pdf; and from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 52. 1,720 kW in China also from “Statistics of Wind Power Development in China 2013,” op. cit. note 10, p. 24. 101 Gsänger, op. cit. note 75. 102 The average size was about 4 MW, due to the dominance of Siemens’ 3.6 MW machine, although larger turbines have been commercialised, from EWEA, op. cit. note 49, p. 9. Note that the average size installed offshore fell from 3,793 kW in 2012 to 3,613 kW in 2013, per Navigant Research, op. cit. note 1. Samsung installed its 7 MW machine, the largest operating offshore by late 2013, near Fife, Scotland, from Jim Bell, “Securing the World’s Largest Turbine,” Renewable Energy World, 1 October 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/10/securing-the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine. The average size of turbines installed in Germany’s offshore wind farms during 2013 was 4.2 MW (4,158 kW), per Ender, op. cit. note 21, p. 43; and it was 5 MW, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 56. 103 European manufacturers testing new turbines include Areva (France), Vestas (Denmark), and Siemens (Germany), from David Appleyard, “A Window on the Future of Offshore Wind Turbines,” Renewable Energy World, 21 June 2013, http://www. renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/06/a-window- on-the-future-of-offshore-wind-turbines; Eize de Vries, “Offshore Wind Turbine Vendors Unveil Next-Generation Wind Power Machines,” Renewable Energy World, 10 December 2013, http:// www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/12/ offshore-wind-turbines-are-getting-bigger-all-the-time; Vestas began testing the world’s most powerful wind turbine (V164-8.0 MW) at the Østerild Test Centre in Denmark, from GWEC, op. cit. note 1, p. 46; China’s Sinovel received a grant of USD 6.6 million (RMB 42 million) from China’s National Development and Reform Commission to develop a 10 MW turbine, and Goldwind and Guodian United Power are also competing to develop a 10 MW machine, from Appleyard, op. cit. note 94; China also from James Quilter, “Ming Yang Working on 12 MW Offshore Turbine,” Wind Power Monthly, 11 July 2013, http://www.windpowermonthly.com/ article/1190352/ming-yang-working-12mw-offshore-turbine. 104 EWEA, op. cit. note 49, p. 9. 105 Foundation types include Spar Buoy, Tension Leg Platform, and Semi-submersible, from David Appleyard, “Floating Offshore Wind Power Taking Hold,” Renewable Energy World, 7 October 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/ article/2013/10/floating-offshore-wind-power-taking-hold. 106 Japan launched a 2 MW turbine in October, and another off the coast of Fukushima in November 2013, goal from Nobuteru Ishihara, Japan’s Minister of Environment, cited in “Another Floating Offshore Wind Project Online in Japan This Week,” GWEC Newsletter, 12 November 2013, http://www.gwec.net/ japans-floating-wind-turbines/; Hiroko Tabuchi, “To Expand Offshore Power, Japan Builds Floating Windmills,” New York Times, 24 October 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/ business/international/to-expand-offshore-power-japan- builds-floating-windmills.html?_r=0; leasing in the United Kingdom from Appleyard, op. cit. note 105. 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