'Alarm bells should be ringing': New global wind installations falls 15 per cent in 2022

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'Alarm bells should be ringing': New global wind installations falls 15 per cent in 2022

BloombergNEF figures show global commissioning of new wind turbines fell to 86GW last year due to slowdown in US and China

The amount of new wind power capacity brought online last year fell by 15 per cent, bringing to an end two years of record deployment as supply chain constraints and policy uncertainty hit project development...

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