This report assesses where the industry stands today—highlighting new legislative wins and market expansion, but also confronting critical challenges like macroeconomic pressures, fragmented trade, supply chain misalignment, and disinformation.

The report sets out a roadmap to overcome these barriers, backed by a clear call to action. With supportive policies, collaborative planning, and targeted investment, wind energy can scale rapidly to unlock economic growth, energy security, and a clean energy future.

The 2025 report delivers a firm call to action: governments, industry and civil society must work together to accelerate wind energy deployment at scale. To achieve this, GWEC urges:

• Create demand certainty: Reform auctions, align procurement with national targets, and provide long-term revenue visibility.
• De-risk investment: Use incentives like tax credits, reduce permitting delays, and implement investor-friendly policies in emerging markets.
• Industrialise for scale: Standardise turbine components, embrace modular manufacturing, and automate production to boost efficiency and resilience.
• Enable fair trade: Replace protectionist measures with coordinated, trade-friendly green industrial policies.
• Modernise infrastructure: Expand and digitise grid systems, accelerate interconnection, and integrate flexibility solutions.
• Build social licence: Counter disinformation with transparent, community-led engagement, benefit-sharing schemes, and local ownership models.

This roadmap lays the foundation to scale from today's growth trajectory to the 320 GW per year needed by 2030—unlocking wind’s full value for economies, people and the planet.