Cumulative wind capacity installed
STO-REC-STAT45JEEFT2 National
1terawatts
Global · 2023
Cumulative wind capacity installed worldwide reached 1 terawatts in 2023 (GWEC).
- Publisher
- GWEC
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- 5. Wind Power is Tackling Climate Change
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The wind industry reached the historic milestone of installing 1 Terawatt (TW) of wind energy in 2023.
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- APA
- Global Wind Energy Council. (2023). Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_45JEEF75WE8KSYMA6HWN81PF1N
- MLA
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2023, https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_45JEEF75WE8KSYMA6HWN81PF1N.
- Chicago
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2023. https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_45JEEF75WE8KSYMA6HWN81PF1N.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2023cumulative81pf1n, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_45JEEF75WE8KSYMA6HWN81PF1N}, note = {Original source: https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Global Wind Energy Council · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- 5. Wind Power is Tackling Climate Change
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_45JEEF75WE8KSYMA6HWN81PF1N