The EU wind energy sector installed 11.6 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2012, bringing the total wind power capacity to 105.6 GW, according to the 2012 annual statistics launched by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

1. Wind in power
European wind energy statistics 2012

2. 2012 annual installations
• 11,895 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €12.8bn and
€17.2bn) was installed in the EU during 2012.
• The National Renewable Energy Action Plans forecast a net
increase in 2012 of 11,360 MW, 328 MW less than the actual net
annual increase of 11,688 MW.
• EU wind power installations for 2012 do not show the significantly
negative impact of market, regulatory and political uncertainty
sweeping across Europe since the beginning of 2011. The
turbines installed during 2012 were generally permitted, financed
and ordered prior to the crisis feeding through to a destabilisation
of legislative frameworks for wind energy. The stress being felt in
many markets across Europe throughout the wind industry’s
value chain should become apparent in a reduced level of
installations in 2013, possibly continuing well into 2014.

3. 2012 annual installations (continued)
• Wind power accounted for 26.5% of total 2012 power capacity
installations.
• Renewable power installations accounted for 70% of new
installations during 2012: 31.3 GW of a total 44.9 GW of new
power capacity, down 4% on 2011.

4. Wind power installed in Europe by end of 2012
(cumulative, MW) FINLAND
288
NORWAY
703
ESTONIA RUSSIA
SWEDEN 269 16
3,745
LATVIA
FAROE ISLANDS
68
4
DENMARK LITHUANIA
4,162 225
IRELAND
1,738 UNITED
KINGDOM NETHERLANDS POLAND
8,445 2,391 2,497
BELGIUM GERMANY UKRAINE
1,375 31,308 276
CZECH
European Union: 106,040 LUXEMBOURG REPUBLIC
SLOVAKIA
44 260
MW Candidate countries: 2,492 3
AUSTRIA
MW FRANCE 1,378 HUNGARY
7,564 SWITZERLAND 329 ROMANIA
EFTA: 753 MW 50 1,905
SLOVENIA
Total Europe: 109,581 0
CROATIA
MW 180
BULGARIA
ITALY
684
8,144
FYROM
PORTUGAL SPAIN 0
22,796 TURKEY
4,525 GREECE 2,312
1,749
MALTA CYPRUS
0 147

5. Wind power installed in EU by end of 2012
(cumulative, MW)
* Provisional data or estimate.
** Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Note: due to previous year adjustments, 207 MW of project de-commissioning, re-powering and rounding of figures, the total 2012
end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent to the sum of the 2011 end-of-year total plus the 2012 additions.

6. EU Member State Market shares for new capacity
installed during 2012 in MW. Total 11,566 MW
Austria Other
296 1,189
3% 10% Germany
Belgium 2,415
297 20%
3%
France
757
6%
Sweden
846
7% UK
1,897
Poland 16%
880
7%
Romania
923 Italy
8% Spain 1,273
1,122 11%
9%
Source: EWEA

7. Share of new power capacity installations in EU
(total 44,601 MW)
Waste, Nuclear Fuel oil Wave and Tidal
Hydro 50 22 7 6
424 0% 0% 0% 0%
CSP 1%
Geothermal
833 5
2% 0%
Biomass
1,338
3%
PV
Coal 16,750
3,065 37%
7%
Gas
10,534
23%
Wind
11,895
267
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2012, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

8. New installed power capacity and
decommissioned power capacity in MW
New
Decommissioned
19000
16,750
14000
11,566
10,535
9000
4000 3,065
1,338
424 833
0 50 0 22 5 0 0 6.600 6 0
1000 -207 -43 -158
-1,205
-3,204
6000 -5,441
-5,495
PV Wind Gas Coal Bio Hydro Waste Nuclea Geothe CSP Fuel oil Wave
mass r rmal and
Tidal
Sources: Platts PowerVision

9. 2012 share of new renewable power capacity
installations in MW (total 30,968 MW)
Hydro Waste Wave and Tidal
424 50 6
CSP 1% 0% 0% Geothermal
833
5
3%
0%
Biomass
1,338
4%
Wind PV
11,895 16,750
37% 54%
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2012, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

10. Trends & cumulative installations
• The EU’s total installed power capacity increased by 29.2 GW net
to 931.9 GW, with wind power increasing by 11.7 GW and
reaching a share of total installed generation capacity of
11.4%, up from 10.5% the previous year.
• The 106 GW of installed wind power capacity is 1.6 GW (1.5%)
below the installed capacity outlined in the 27 National
Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAPs) of 107.6 GW.
Onshore there are 101 GW of installed capacity instead of 101.7
GW foreseen by the NREAPs (-1%). Offshore there are 4,993
MW of installed capacity instead of 5,829 foreseen by the
NREAPs (-14%).
• Since 2000, 27.7% of new capacity installed has been wind
power, 51.2% renewables and 91.2% renewables and gas
combined.
• The EU power sector continues its move away from fuel oil, coal
and nuclear, with each technology continuing to decommission
more than it installs.

11. Installed power generating capacity per year in
MW and RES share (%)
50000
45000
40000
35000
30000
25000
RES (70%)
20000
15000
10000
5000
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Peat Fuel oil Nuclear Coal Gas Geothermal CSP Waste Hydro Biomass PV Wind
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2012, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

12. Net electricity generating installations
in EU 2000-2012 (GW)
140
121
120
100 96
80
69
60
40
20
4 4 2 2 0 0 0
20 -13 -15 -17
Ga Wind PV Bio- Hydro Waste CSP Peat Geo- Wave Coal Nuclear Fuel
s mass thermal and Tidal oil
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2012, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

13. EU power capacity mix
2000 2012
Peat Hydro Peat
110,066 Wind 2,030 Hydro
Fuel oil 1,868 Fuel oil Wind
19% 12,887 0% 126,354
66,518 0% 50,548 105,696
2% 14%
12% 6% 11%
PV
Biomass Nuclear 68,990
Gas
2,790 120,261 7%
89,801
1% 13%
16%
Biomass
7,315
1%
Geothermal
1,360 CSP
0% 1,890
Gas
0%
Ocean 214,993
248 23% Waste
Nuclear 0%
3,854
128,471 0%
PV
22%
125 Geothermal
Coal Coal Ocean
0% 1,487
159,482 227,877 260
28% 25% 0% 0%
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2012, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

14. Wind power installations
• Annual installations of wind power have increased steadily over
the last 12 years, from 3.2 GW in 2000 to 11.9 GW in 2012, a
compound annual growth rate of over 11.6%.
• A total of 106 GW is now installed in the European Union, an
increase in installed cumulative capacity of 12.6% compared to
the previous year.
• Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed
capacity followed by Spain, the UK and Italy. 15 Member States
have more than 1 GW of installed capacity, including two newer
Member States, Poland and Romania.
• There was generalised growth in wind energy installations across
Europe, although it is expected that a number of large
markets, such as Italy and Spain, and certain previously fast
growing emerging markets, such as Bulgaria, may slow down
significantly over the coming years.

15. Wind power installations (continued)
• Offshore saw a record growth in 2012, and the trend is expected
to continue in 2013 and 2014.
• The wind power capacity installed by the end of 2012 would, in a
normal wind year, produce 231 TWh of electricity, enough to
cover 7% of the EU’s electricity consumption – up from 6.3% the
year before.

16. Annual wind power installations in EU (GW)
14
12 11.9
10.3
9.8 9.7
10
9
8.5
8
7.2
6.5
5.9 5.8
6 5.5
4.4
4
3.2
2
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: EWEA

17. Denmark, Germany and Spain’s share of EU wind
power market (GW)
100% 00 00
0.5 1.5
90% 2.2
80%
2.8
70%
60% 5
6
50%
2.7
40%
30%
3.6
20%
3.4 3.8
10%
0%
2000 2005 2010 2012
NMS Other EU Pioneers
Source: EWEA

18. Annual onshore and offshore installations (MW)
14000
Offshore onshore
12000
1166
10000 575
883 874
318
373
8000
93
90
6000 170 90
276 10,729
9,695
51 8,648 8,964 8,790
4000 8,109
7,086
6,454
5,743 5,749
5,186
2000 4,377
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: EWEA

19. Cumulative wind power installations in the EU
(GW)
120
106
100 94.3
85
80 75.2
65
60 56.7
48
40.8
40 34.4
28.5
23.1
20 17.3
12.9
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: EWEA

20. EU Member State market shares for total installed
capacity (total 106 GW)
Netherlands Others
Poland 2 10
2 2% 10%
2% Germany
Sweden 31
4 30%
3%
Denmark
4
4%
Portugal
5
4%
France
7 Spain
Italy 23
7% 8 22%
8% UK
8
8%
Source: EWEA

21. Wind power share of total electricity consumption
in EU (7%) and in member states
27%
17%
16%
13%
11%
7%
7%
6%
6%
6%
6%
5%
5%
4%
4%
4%
4%
4%
3%
3%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Sources: EWEA, Eurostat 2010

22. Wind power share of total electricity consumption
in Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey
2.3%
2%
11%
0.2%
0.0% 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 2.0% 2.5%
Sources: EWEA, Eurostat 2010

23. Wind power targets
• Overall the EU is lagging by 1.6 GW (-1.5%) behind its 27
National Renewable energy Action Plan forecasts.
• Eighteen Member States are falling behind on their wind power
capacity trajectories, most notably Slovakia, Greece, Czech
Republic, Hungary, France and Portugal.
• Nine Member States are above their trajectory.
• Compared to EWEA’s 2009 forecast, onshore installations are 3
GW above expectations (+3%). Offshore installations are below
EWEA’s expectations by 307 MW (-6%).

24. Wind power capacity targets, National Renewable
Energy Action Plans and real (MW)
Source: EWEA

25. Wind power capacity targets (NREAPs and EWEA
2009) and real (MW)
110
Offshore onshore
108
106
5.8
104
5
102
5.3
100
98
101.8
101
96
98
94
92
NREAPs EWEA 2009 Real
Source: EWEA

26. About the European Wind Energy Association
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promoting wind power in Europe and worldwide. It has
over 700 members from almost 60 countries making
EWEA the world's largest and most powerful wind energy
network.
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