Wind capacity growth multiple
RecordSTO-YAW3NQY0V4-12FGXX4EXS-H3JW4G
Global · 1 Jan 2006 to 15 Jun 2026
Wind capacity growth multiple worldwide was more than 20 multiple between 1 January 2006 and 15 June 2026 (GWEC).
- Publisher
- GWEC
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- 1. Wind is Now a Mainstream Source of Electricity
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In the 20 years since GWEC was founded, global wind capacity has grown more than twenty-fold.
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APA
Global Wind Energy Council. (2026). 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_YAW3NQY0V412FGXX4EXSH3JW4G
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2026, https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YAW3NQY0V412FGXX4EXSH3JW4G.
- Chicago
- Global Wind Energy Council. "Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind." 2026. https://www.gwec.net/news/globalwindday-2026. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YAW3NQY0V412FGXX4EXSH3JW4G.
- BibTeX
- @misc{gwec2026windh3jw4g, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {Global Wind Day 2026: Fast Facts about Wind}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YAW3NQY0V412FGXX4EXSH3JW4G}, 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
- 1. Wind is Now a Mainstream Source of Electricity
- 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_YAW3NQY0V412FGXX4EXSH3JW4G