Global Wind Report

This is the 13th annual report on the status of the global wind industry by the Global Wind Energy Council.

2017 edition includes insights into the 21 top wind markets across the world, with a feature chapter on new emerging markets, a five-year market forecast out to 2022, a chapter on the global offshore wind market and much more.

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its flagship publication Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update 2016.

More than 54 GW of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market in 2016, which now comprises more than 90 countries, including 9 with more than 10,000 MW installed, and 29 which have now passed the 1,000 MW mark. Cumulative capacity grew by 12.6% to reach a total of 486.8 GW.

Global Wind Report 2015: Annual Market update

The wind power industry set new records across the world last year, and the wind is leading the transformation of the global power system, long overdue and very necessary to achieve the climate objectives agreed by 186 nations in Paris last December.

The Global Wind Energy Council launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update today in Istanbul. The report details wind power’s remarkable growth in 2014, as well as updating GWEC’s rolling 5 year market projections, which show continued growth for the rest of the decade.

Led by China and Brazil in the first instance, as well as Mexico and South Africa, non-OECD markets outstripped the traditional markets in Europe and North America again in 2014. China installed an astonishing 23 GW of new wind power last year, bringing its cumulative total to more than 114 GW, and Brazil was the world’s 4th largest market in 2014, and entered the top 10 in cumulative rankings for the first time. The African market took off in 2014, and Germany, Chile, Canada and Turkey also had record years.