Global Statistics
Global wind power boom continues despite economic woes
The world’s wind power capacity grew by 31% in 2009, adding 37.5 GW to bring total installations up to 157.9 GW. A third of these additions were made in China, which experienced yet another year of over 100% growth.
Wind energy is now an important player in the world’s energy markets. The global wind market for turbine installations in 2009 was worth about 45 bn EUR or 63 bn US$. GWEC estimates that around half a million people are now employed by the wind industry around the world.
The main markets driving this significant growth continue to be Asia, North America and Europe, each of which installed more than 10 GW of new wind capacity in 2009.
China was the world’s largest market in 2009, nearly doubling its wind generation capacity from 12.1 GW in 2008 to 25.1 GW at the end of 2009 with new capacity additions of 13 GW.
More information on global figures : see GWEC Website
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GWEC - Table and Statistics 2009 (2.0 MB)
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08-02 PR Global Statistics 2007 (26 KB)
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07-02 PR Global Statistics 2006 (46 KB)
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stats2006 (93 KB)
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06-02 PR Global Statistics 2005 (56 KB)
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stats2005 (108 KB)
