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2018 Wind Technologies Market Report

Preparation and Authorship

This report was prepared for the Wind Energy Technologies Office within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Primary authors of the report are: Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Contributing authors include: Galen Barbose, Naïm Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew Mills, Joe Rand, Dev Millstein, and Seongeun Jeong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Kevin Porter and Nicholas Disanti (Exeter Associates); and Frank Oteri (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

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Acknowledgments

For their support of this ongoing report series, the authors thank the entire U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office team. In particular, we wish to acknowledge Patrick Gilman, Rich Tusing, and Valerie Reed. For reviewing elements of this report or providing key input, we also acknowledge: Andrew David (U.S. International Trade Commission); Mike O’Sullivan and Mark Ahlstrom (NextEra); Christopher Namovicz and Richard Bowers (Energy Informational Administration); Karin Ohlenforst (Global Wind Energy Council); Lawrence Willey (University of Wyoming); John Hensley and Adam Stern (American Wind Energy Association); and Liz Hartman, Elizabeth Hogan, and Gage Reber (DOE). For providing data that underlie aspects of this report, we thank the Energy Information Administration, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Wood Mackenzie, Navigant, Global Wind Energy Council, and the American Wind Energy Association. Thanks also to Donna Heimiller and Billy Roberts (NREL) for assistance with the wind project and wind manufacturing maps as well as for assistance in mapping wind resource quality; and Carol Laurie (NREL) and Liz Hartman (DOE) for assistance with layout, formatting, production, and/or communications. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s contributions to this report were funded by the Wind Energy Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the DOE under Contract No. DE- AC02-05CH11231. The authors are solely responsible for any omissions or errors contained herein.

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List of Acronyms

AWEA	American Wind Energy Association
BNEF	Bloomberg New Energy Finance
BPA	Bonneville Power Administration
CAISO	California Independent System Operator
COD	commercial operation date
CCA	community choice aggregator
DOE	U.S. Department of Energy
EDPR	EDP Renováveis
EIA	U.S. Energy Information Administration
ERCOT	Electric Reliability Council of Texas
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
GE	General Electric Corporation
GW	GigaWatt
HTS	Harmonized Tariff Schedule
IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
IOU	investor-owned utility
IPP	independent power producer
ISO	independent system operator
ISO-NE	New England Independent System Operator
ITC	investment tax credit
kV	kiloVolt
kW	kiloWatt
kWh	kiloWatt-hour
LCOE	levelized cost of energy
m2	square meter
MISO	Midcontinent Independent System Operator
MW	MegaWatt
MWh	MegaWatt-hour
NREL	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NYISO	New York Independent System Operator
O&M	operations and maintenance
OEM	original equipment manufacturer
PJM	PJM Interconnection
POU	publicly owned utility

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PPA	power purchase agreement
PTC	production tax credit
REC	renewable energy certificate
RGGI	Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
RPS	renewables portfolio standard
RTO	regional transmission organization
SGRE	Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
SPP	Southwest Power Pool
USITC	U.S. International Trade Commission
USWTDB	United States Wind Turbine Database
W	Watt
WAPA	Western Area Power Administration
WECC	Western Electricity Coordinating Council

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