Lens Wind
The industry’s most trusted view of the wind energy landscape
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Lens Wind
The industry’s most trusted view of the wind energy landscape
Accurate wind energy analysis and insight for smarter investment decisions
Wind energy remains at the forefront of the energy transition, yet persistent execution challenges remain. Fluctuating demand, new technology deployments, strained supply chains, and financial hurdles for manufacturers have made it difficult to capitalise on accelerating trends.
Our integrated platform providers layers of insight to attract and allocate capital.
Lens Wind
Interconnected market intelligence to support long-term planning, strategy, and investment due diligence.
60,000
wind generation projects
10-year
outlooks for global installations
4 TW
of mapped wind projects in all development phases
1 TW
of operating assets
1,000
unique wind turbines tracked
120,000+
competitive bid events providing visibility into 1,000+ renewable energy projects
Features and workflows
Navigate wind energy market volatility by leveraging our industry-leading research, global wind data, and insights.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Wind:
- A holistic view of the evolving wind energy landscape, with fully interconnected research and analytics that spans wind market outlooks, economics, players and competitive dynamics and supply chain and technology themes
- Industry-leading proprietary data to assess opportunities and plan your next successful venture
- Direct access to our analysts to stay ahead of market trends and dynamics. Delivering a quick turnaround on requests and queries, consider us an extension of your team
- A powerful API feed providing access to both real-time market data feeds and underlying forecast data to create customised solutions
Lens Wind includes the following capabilities:
Wind market forecasts
- Quarterly 10-year outlooks spanning 130+ countries
- 10 regional reports that dive deep into policy and forecasts
- Offshore wind profiles for over 50 markets
Wind asset details
- Access to over 4 TW of mapped wind projects in all development phases
- Over 1 TW of operating assets, with over 400,000 turbines across 110 countries
Wind technology trends
- 10-year forecast on turbine and component growth
- Database of 500+ turbine models
Wind O&M trends
- Reports that cover strategy, cost and technology trends for the booming wind turbine O&M market
- Interactive cost tools showcasing O&M costs to benchmark spending
Cost forecasting
- Interactive cost models with 10-year granular component-level forecasts
- LCOE forecasts detailing long-term cost-competitiveness
Supply chain insights
- 500+ factory location facilities tracked
- Market share of 20+ wind turbine suppliers
- Quarterly wind turbine order tracking
Lens Wind lets you:
- Understand the risk and reward of offshore wind sector with access to over 50 offshore wind market profiles, highlighting project details, policy support, supply chain activity and market risk
- Target onshore wind growth markets with regional reports that dive deep into 10 different regions of the onshore wind energy and repowering markets
- Market-level capex and opex forecasts with a detailed cost estimating platform that enables tailored estimates based on each market’s unique characteristics with component-level detail
- Costs forecasts built upon a proprietary dataset of over US$8.5 trillion of direct spend data and industry-leading foresight on price development on underlying commodities and raw materials
- Understand the global wind supply chain with the industry’s most comprehensive database of manufacturing factories for blades, towers, nacelles and drivetrains, and an annual supply chain report that highlights competitive dynamics
- Anticipate the next generation of wind technology with the industry-leading turbine technology database and wind turbine technology trend reports
- Benchmark the leading wind turbine suppliers as well as overall wind asset owners
- Understand the backlog for wind turbine orders with quarterly reports that highlight recent global wind turbine order activity and a database of signed orders for wind turbine equipment
- Monitor the latest trends in offtake and tenders with proprietary databases that track all global wind PPAs, renewable energy tenders and Integrated Resource Plans
- Target the fleet of over 1 TW of wind assets for operations and maintenance through the Lens platform of asset details, including detailed turbine configurations and ownership details
- Refine your O&M strategy with annual reports that highlight competitive dynamics in the O&M sector
Why choose Lens Wind?
Backed by 50 years of providing trusted energy advice, we offer the world’s most rigorous global data, analytics and expert advisory solutions across the wind power industry.
Our solution delivers:
- Reliable, accurate cost trends driven by market dynamics, commodity insights and technology trends.
- Industry-leading wind market demand outlooks.
- Unique perspective into the complex global wind supply chain
- Unparalleled insight into the operations and maintenance (O&M) sector
- Renowned and respected expertise across the globe, yielding impactful perspectives on policy, demand, development opportunities, technology trends, market reforms, grid integration, supply chain constraints and risk
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Lens Wind. If you have any other questions, contact us.
Yes. Our joint report (Wind Energy Monitor) with American Clean Power highlights market dynamics impacting the US onshore and offshore wind industries. The quarterly release includes a five-year look-ahead outlining expected capacity buildout, costs, supply chain, policy and investment, plus highlights and developments from the first three months of the year.
Yes, Lens Wind coverage spans globally, unlocking a multitude of growth and investment opportunities.
Absolutely! You get direct access to our expert analysts located around the world, who have developed unrivalled knowledge of the sector and region they cover.
Their strong, established relationships with industry contacts take our research to a more detailed level, where we can ask the right questions to get to the answers that matter. And they are always available to share their unique perspective with you.
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Contact an expert
Consult our team of analysts to gain impactful insights and inform your strategic decisions across the wind value chain. Our experts provide actionable intelligence to help you navigate the complexities of the wind energy sector and stay ahead of industry trends.
