Abstract
This chapter discusses the important role that wind power could play in achieving carbon emissions reductions, as well as some of the barriers to that outcome. Wind power is a mature, zero-emission technology that offers an immediate option for reducing the carbon footprint of the electricity sector. In good wind resource regimes, its costs are comparable to fossil fuel generation, adequate wind resources are available throughout the globe, and there are no insurmountable technical barriers to dramatically increased deployment of this technology. Along with other important near-term strategies, increased deployment of wind can help buy time as newer technologies are developed or as other technologies seek greater public acceptance. Specifically, the global wind resource is vast and, though accessing this potential is not costless or lacking in barriers, wind power can be developed at scale in the near-to-medium term at what promises to be an acceptable cost.
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