Wind turbines installed this year
How many wind turbines are in the world?
The Global Wind Energy Council reports 28,395 new turbines installed worldwide in 2025, and 1,299 gigawatts of wind capacity installed worldwide (end of 2025). StatOrigin holds no sourced count of every wind turbine in operation. This counter spreads the 2025 installations evenly across the current year, starting from zero on 1 January.
Estimated range: 22,209 – 24,546 (±5%)
- 28,395 Actual · 2025 · GWEC
- 0.0009 wind turbines per second, modelled
- Tier B (±5%) Moderate confidence
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 0.0009
- Per minute
- 0.054
- Per hour
- 3.24
- Per day
- 77.7
- Still to come this year
- 4,997
Counted in wind turbines.
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 B Moderate confidence
Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) annual turbine OEM shipment and commission database.
- Error Band
- ±5%
Modelled range: 22,209 to 24,546
- Annualized Validation
- ≤ 3.0% tolerance passed
Pace: 28,395 wind turbines/yr vs cited reference 28,395 wind turbines/yr (exact match)
- Basis
- Actual for 2025
- Record
- STO-QR261B5DFG
- Source
- GWEC, GWEC records sharp rise in wind turbine installations, as five OEMs exceed 100 GW
“GWEC’s annual Global Wind Market Development Supply Side Data Report, released to members and subscribers on its Global Market Intelligence platform, shows global wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) installed 28,395 new turbines worldwide in 2025, up 23% on the previous year.”
- Step 01
Take GWEC’s figure for 2025: 28,395.
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 3.24 wind turbines per hour.
- Step 03
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
How many wind turbines are in the world?
The Global Wind Energy Council reports 28,395 new turbines installed worldwide in 2025, and 1,299 gigawatts of wind capacity installed worldwide (end of 2025). StatOrigin holds no sourced count of every wind turbine in operation. This counter spreads the 2025 installations evenly across the current year, starting from zero on 1 January.
Which published figure is the counter based on?
The Global Wind Energy Council’s figure for 2025: 28,395 wind turbines.
How is the live number calculated?
Take GWEC’s figure for 2025: 28,395. Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 3.24 wind turbines 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, “GWEC records sharp rise in wind turbine installations, as five OEMs exceed 100 GW”. The record quotes the publisher’s own sentence, and nothing on the page is fetched live from the publisher.
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StatOrigin. (2026). Wind turbines installed this year [Live counter, extrapolated from GWEC]. Retrieved 28 Oct 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/wind-turbines