Forecast average annual new wind power capacity
RecordSTO-DE4QBC95JT-X55E2GRZJV-DE3VSQ
Global · 2026–2030
GWEC projects average annual new wind power capacity worldwide at 194 gigawatts in 2026–2030.
- Publisher
- GWEC
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- 6. To Meet Demand, the Workforce is Growing Rapidly
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
This would average 194 GW annually through 2030, amounting to a projected compound annual growth rate of 5.2%.
Checked: the figure 194 gigawatts is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
Global Wind Energy Council. (2030). 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_DE4QBC95JTX55E2GRZJVDE3VSQ
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2030, https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DE4QBC95JTX55E2GRZJVDE3VSQ.
- Chicago
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2030. https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DE4QBC95JTX55E2GRZJVDE3VSQ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2030forecastde3vsq, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind}, year = {2030}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DE4QBC95JTX55E2GRZJVDE3VSQ}, 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 and industry official
- Report
- Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- 6. To Meet Demand, the Workforce is Growing Rapidly
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_DE4QBC95JTX55E2GRZJVDE3VSQ