Estimated additional energy bill costs without wind power

For example, a 2025 study by University College London showed that UK energy bills between 2010-2023 would have been £14.2bn higher if the electricity generated by their wind farms had instead come from gas.

The figure above was extracted from this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

Published under CC BY 4.0. Attribute the original publisher; the citations below do that for you and link to this permanent record.

APA

Global Wind Energy Council. (2023). 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_Y6ADS8X1XFE21QH16F8DSGMPMT

Copy

MLA

Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2023, https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y6ADS8X1XFE21QH16F8DSGMPMT.

Copy

Chicago

Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2023. https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y6ADS8X1XFE21QH16F8DSGMPMT.

Copy

BibTeX

@misc{gwec2023estimatedsgmpmt, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y6ADS8X1XFE21QH16F8DSGMPMT}, note = {Original source: https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

Copy

Everything needed to check this number yourself, without taking our word for it.

Record last modified 17 September 2026. Value type: estimate. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y6ADS8X1XFE21QH16F8DSGMPMT.