Wind Additions

Updates for wind power systems are [CM, 2023]:

  

• World’s cumulative wind power installed capacity by 9 percent, to 906 GW.

• The world added nearly 78 GW of wind power projects in 2022, marking the industry’s third-best year for new capacity, but representing a drop from the previous year’s installations, according to GWEC

• Onshore projects accounted for the vast majority of new wind capacity last year, with 68.8 GW connected to power grids worldwide (and 8.8 GW in new offshore) , a drop of 5% from new. installations in 2021.

• China accounted for nearly half of last year’s additions, while the U.S. saw a 32% drop in y-o-y capacity additions, due in part to supply-chain constraints and grid interconnection issues.  Figure 1 shows new onshore wind capacity added in 2022 by country.

• China installed 5 GW of new offshore wind capacity in 2022 (21 GW in 2021), while the U.S. didn’t install any offshore turbines last year.  Figure 2 shows new installations outlook for onshore and offshore wind energy (2022-2027).

• GWEC Market Intelligence forecasts that the 1 TW milestone will be reached sometime mid-2023.

• Figure 3 shows the evolution of installed wind turbine sizes.

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Top 10 wind turbine manufacturers in the world in 2022 [BV, 2023]:

  

• Vestas, Aarhus, Denmark, 9.60 GW

• Siemens Gamesa, Biscay, Spain, 8.79 GW

• Goldwind, Beijing, China, 8.25 GW

• GE, Boston, U.S., 7.37 GW

• Envision, Shanghai, China, 5.78 GW

• MingYang, Zhongshan, China, 4.50 GW

• Windey, Zhejiang, China, 2.06 GW

• Nordex, Hamburg, Germany, 1.96 GW

• Shanghai Electric, Shanghai, China, 1.71 GW

• CSIC, Chongqin, China, 1.46 GW