{"id":6833,"date":"2023-03-30T02:44:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:45:58","slug":"what-is-the-global-wind-energy-council-gwec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-global-wind-energy-council-gwec\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>member-based trade association<\/strong> that represents the <strong>entire wind energy sector<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established in 2005<\/strong> to provide a credible and representative fo<strong>rum for the entire wind energy sector<\/strong> at an international level.<\/li>\n<li>The members of GWEC <strong>represent over 1,500 companies<\/strong>, o<strong>rganisations and institutions in more than 80 countries<\/strong>, including manufacturers, developers, component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables associations, electricity providers, and finance and insurance companies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:\u00a0 Brussels, Belgium.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission<\/strong>: To promote the <strong>development and deployment of wind power<\/strong> <strong>as a sustainable <\/strong>and cost-effective <strong>source of energy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The GWEC <strong>conducts research,<\/strong> <strong>provides market intelligence<\/strong>, and advocates for policies that support the growth of wind energy.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>organizes events and conferences<\/strong> to bring together stakeholders from around the world to discuss key issues in the industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reports published: Global Wind Report<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which state is the largest producer of wind energy in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Tamil Nadu\u00a0 is the largest producer of wind energy in India, with an annual wind power output of around 9,000 MW per annum. Gujarat comes second within India\u2019s wind power generation hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/national\/india-needs-to-back-its-wind-energy-ambitions-with-investment-global-wind-energy-council-1204693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India needs to back its wind energy ambitions with investment: Global Wind Energy Council<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Wind Energy Council is a member-based trade association that represents the entire wind energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}