New wind power capacity installed
RecordSTO-WJJKQ3PM5T-GZJQCK0XTR-C0DSKA
Global · 2025
New wind power capacity installed worldwide was 165 gigawatts in 2025 (GWEC).
New wind power capacity installed: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- GWEC
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- 2. We've Seen Record Growth in Recent Years
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
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]
Checked: the figure 165 gigawattsis 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. (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_WJJKQ3PM5TGZJQCK0XTRC0DSKA
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- 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_WJJKQ3PM5TGZJQCK0XTRC0DSKA.
- 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_WJJKQ3PM5TGZJQCK0XTRC0DSKA.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2025windc0dska, 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_WJJKQ3PM5TGZJQCK0XTRC0DSKA}, 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
- 2. We've Seen Record Growth in Recent Years
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_WJJKQ3PM5TGZJQCK0XTRC0DSKA