As of the end of 2016, the worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power amounted to 486,790 MW, an increase of 12.5% compared to the previous year. Installations increased by 54,642 MW, 63,330 MW, 51,675 MW and 36,023 MW in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 respectively.
Since 2010 more than half of all new wind power was added outside the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven by the continuing boom in China and India. At the end of 2015, China had 145 GW of wind power installed. In 2015, China installed close to half the world's added wind power capacity.
Several countries have achieved relatively high levels of wind power penetration, such as 39% of stationary electricity production in Denmark, 18% in Portugal, 16% in Spain, 14% in Ireland and 9% in Germany in 2010. As of 2011, 83 countries around the world are using wind power on a commercial basis. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage at the end of 2014 was 3.1%.
Video Wind power by country
Installed wind power capacity
This section provides end-of-year figures of worldwide installed wind power capacity by country. The data is sourced from Global Wind Energy Council. In 2015, global wind power capacity increased by 63,330 MW or 17.14% from 369,553 MW to 432,883 MW.
Maps Wind power by country
Annual wind power generation
Electricity generation by wind 2011-2012
Electricity Generation by Wind (total TWh per year):
Historical wind power capacity
- Total does not match sum of totals because of different sources.
Historical wind power generation
Electricity generation by wind 2001-2010
Electricity generation by wind 1991-2000
Electricity generation by wind 1983-1990
- 1 [sic] - Generation does not correlate with installed capacity, which would suggest approximately 0.33, 0.87, 1.54, 2.13, 2.50, 2.47 TWh from 1983 to 1988 for the United States.
Opinion on wind farms in selected countries
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