Forecast wind technicians required
RecordSTO-FHW1GQ7ESQ-AAFWQ7QPB9-HAZHY2
Global · 2025–2030
GWEC projects wind technicians required worldwide at 628,000 workers in 2025–2030.
- 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
The Global Wind Workforce Outlook, a detailed industry forecast published in December 2025 by GWEC and the Global Wind Organisation (GWO), concluded that around 628,000 technicians will be required between 2025 and 2030, with over 40% of these expected to be new industry entrants.
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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_FHW1GQ7ESQAAFWQ7QPB9HAZHY2
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_FHW1GQ7ESQAAFWQ7QPB9HAZHY2.
- 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_FHW1GQ7ESQAAFWQ7QPB9HAZHY2.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2030forecasthazhy2, 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_FHW1GQ7ESQAAFWQ7QPB9HAZHY2}, 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_FHW1GQ7ESQAAFWQ7QPB9HAZHY2