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Wind power capacity added this year
- 165 gigawatts Actual · 2025 · GWEC
- 0.0052 megawatts per second, modelled
- +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
- 42,309
Counted in megawatts.
How this number is made
- 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.
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