Growth rate of new wind power capacity added

This led to a record-breaking 165 gigawatts of new wind power capacity being added to electricity grids in 2025 – up 40% on the previous year.[5]

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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_P3E1AR48414Y0NVCWPQYJ1VQWP

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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_P3E1AR48414Y0NVCWPQYJ1VQWP.

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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_P3E1AR48414Y0NVCWPQYJ1VQWP.

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@misc{gwec2025growthj1vqwp, 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_P3E1AR48414Y0NVCWPQYJ1VQWP}, note = {Original source: https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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