New wind power capacity installed
STO-REC-STAT94NATPT2 National
6.9gigawatts
United States · 2025
New wind power capacity installed in United States totalled 6.9 gigawatts in 2025 (GWEC).
- Publisher
- GWEC
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- 2. We've Seen Record Growth in Recent Years
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The United States installed the next largest amount of wind power, at 6.9 GW, followed by India (6.3 GW), Germany (5.7 GW) and Brazil (2.3 GW).
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- APA
- Global Wind Energy Council. (2025). 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_94NATPQPQ0FRHPCMXBMSQCPY5V
- MLA
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2025, https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_94NATPQPQ0FRHPCMXBMSQCPY5V.
- Chicago
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2025. https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_94NATPQPQ0FRHPCMXBMSQCPY5V.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2025windqcpy5v, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_94NATPQPQ0FRHPCMXBMSQCPY5V}, 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
- 2. We've Seen Record Growth in Recent Years
- 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_94NATPQPQ0FRHPCMXBMSQCPY5V