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China alone had over 40% of the world's capacity in 2023. [3] Wind power is used on a commercial basis in more than half of all the countries of the world. [4] Denmark produced 58% of its electricity from wind in 2023, a larger share than any other country. Latvia's wind capacity grew by 75%, the largest percent increase in 2022. [3]
Wind power showed potential for replacing natural gas in electricity generation on a cost basis. By 2021 wind energy produced 4872 terawatts-hour, 2.8% of the total primary energy production [51] and 6.6% of the total electricity production. [52] Technological innovations continue to drive new developments in the application of wind power.
Renewable electricity generation by source and country in 2023 [1]. This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources. [1]Renewables accounted for 30% of electric generation in 2023.
GE Wind Energy: Haliade-X 14.7 Prototype Dogger Bank C (United Kingdom) Prototype deployed October 2019 as 12 MW, uprated to 13 MW in October 2020, then to 14 MW in October 2021, then to 14.7MW. [21] Siemens Gamesa: SG 14-222 DD 14.7 Commercially deployed April 2024 [22] Moray West GE Wind Energy: Haliade-X 13 Commercially deployed August 2023
Wind energy penetration is the fraction of energy produced by wind compared with the total generation. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2021 was almost 7%, [ 55 ] up from 3.5% in 2015.
A 200 MW wind farm at 35% capacity factor will generate approximately 613.2 GWh/year. In addition to the megawatt wind farms, community scale single wind turbines of from 250 kW to 750 kW are typically 50 meters high, and residential or farm wind turbines are typically 15–40 m (49–131 ft) high.
The Gansu Wind Farm in China is the largest wind farm in the world, with a target capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020. Part of the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm , with a turbine under construction The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 megawatt (MW) wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon .
According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)'s 2024 report, global wind power capacity surpassed the 1-terawatt (TW) mark, reaching 1021 GW, a 13% increase from the previous year. The GWEC has updated its forecasts, projecting a total capacity of 1,210 GW by 2030 and emphasizing the need to triple annual installations to at least 320 GW ...