Wind power capacity added this year
Estimated range: 131,771 – 139,921 (±3%)
- 165 gigawatts Actual · 2025 · GWEC
- 0.0052 megawatts per second, modelled
- Tier A (±3%) High confidence
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 0.0052
- Per minute
- 0.3137
- Per hour
- 18.8
- Per day
- 451
- Still to come this year
- 29,040
Counted in megawatts.
How this number is made
- Algorithm
- Annual flow spread
Evenly distributed across 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days) of the year.
- Confidence Tier
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Tier A High confidence
GWEC official installation tallies verified against grid interconnection records.
- Error Band
- ±3%
Modelled range: 131,771 to 139,921
- Annualized Validation
- ≤ 3.0% tolerance passed
Pace: 165,000 megawatts/yr vs cited reference 165,000 megawatts/yr (exact match)
- Basis
- Actual for 2025
- Record
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- Source
- GWEC, Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind
“This led to a record-breaking 165 gigawatts of new wind power capacity being added to electricity grids in 2025 – up 40% on the previous year.[5]”
- Step 01
Take GWEC’s figure for 2025: 165 gigawatts.
- Step 02
Convert the unit: gigawatts × 1,000 = megawatts, which gives 165,000 megawatts a year.
- Step 03
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 18.8 megawatts per hour.
- Step 04
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Frequently asked questions
Which published figure is the counter based on?
The Global Wind Energy Council’s figure for 2025: 165 gigawatts.
How is the live number calculated?
Take GWEC’s figure for 2025: 165 gigawatts. Convert the unit: gigawatts × 1,000 = megawatts, which gives 165,000 megawatts a year. Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 18.8 megawatts per hour. Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
How accurate is the counter?
Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Where does the data come from?
The Global Wind Energy Council, “Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind”. The record quotes the publisher’s own sentence, and nothing on the page is fetched live from the publisher.
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