Wind power capacity installations in the EU in 2011 totaled 9,616 MW, similar to the previous year. This accounted for 21.4% of total new power capacity installations in the EU in 2011. Overall, renewable power sources accounted for 71.3% of new installations, totaling 32,043 MW. Germany was the largest market for new wind power capacity in 2011, installing almost 2,100 MW, followed by the UK with 1,293 MW and Spain with 1,050 MW.

1. Wind in power
2011 European statistics
February 2012
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2. Wind in poWer: 2011 european sTaTisTics
Contents
Executive summary .............................................................................. 3
Wind map 2011 ................................................................................... 4
2011 annual installations ...................................................................... 5
Wind power capacity installations ................................................. 5
Power capacity installations ......................................................... 6
Renewable power capacity installations ........................................ 7
Trends & cumulative installations ........................................................... 7
Renewable power installations ..................................................... 7
Net changes in EU installed capacity 2000-2011 .......................... 8
Total installed power capacity ....................................................... 8
A closer look at wind power installations ................................................ 9
Annual wind power installations ................................................... 9
National breakdown of wind power installations ............................. 9
Onshore and offshore annual markets .......................................... 10
Cumulative wind power installations ............................................. 10
Estimated wind energy production ................................................ 11
Contributors
Justin Wilkes (Policy Director, EWEA)
Jacopo Moccia (Head of Policy Analysis, EWEA)
Mihaela Dragan (Research officer, EWEA)
Data sources
Bentek Energy PowerVision (formerly Platts), January 2012
EWEA, wind energy and ocean energy data
EPIA, solar PV data
ESTELA, CSP data
EU-OEA, Ocean energy data
EGEC and Eurostat, Geothermal data
Special thanks to:
IGWindkraft (AT) – EDORA and VWEA (BE) – APEE and BGWEA (BG) – CSVE (CZ) – BWE and VDMA (DE) - DWIA and DKWind (DK)
– Tuulenergia (EE) – IWEA (EI) - HWEA (EL) – AEE (ES) - Suomen Tuulivoimayhdistys ry and Technology Industries of Finland (FI) –
SERTFEE (FR) – Jardfeingi (FO) - Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar (HR) – MSZET and MSZIT (HU) – ANEV (IT) – LWPA (LT) – Ministère
de l’économie et du commerce extérieur (LU) - LVEA (LV) – NWEA (NL) – NorWEA (NO) – PWEA (PL) – APREN (PT) – AREE (RO) –
ZVES (SK) – Svensk Vindenergi (SE) - APE (SI) – Suisse Eole (CH) – TÜREB (TK) – UWEA (UA) – RenewableUK (UK)
Photo cover: Enel Green Power
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3. Executive summary
2011 annual installations
• 9,616 MW of wind power capacity (worth some €12.6 billion) was installed in the EU during
2011, a similar figure to the previous year (9,648 in 2010);
• Wind power accounted for 21.4% of total 2011 power capacity installations;
• Renewable power installations accounted for 71.3% of new installations during 2011:
32,043 MW of a total of 44,939 MW of new power capacity;
• More renewable power capacity was installed during 2011 than any other year, an increase
of 37.7% compared to 2010;
• More power capacity was installed in 2011 than ever before - an increase of 3.9%, due
entirely to increasing renewable power installations.
Trends & cumulative installations
• The EU’s total installed power capacity increased by 35,468 MW net to 895,878 MW, with
wind power increasing its share of installed capacity to 10.5% (93,957 MW), and renewable
capacity increasing its share to 31.1%;
• Since 2000, 28.2% of new capacity installed has been wind power, 47.8% renewables,
and 90.8% renewables and gas combined;
• For only the third time since 1998 the EU power sector installed more coal than it decommis-
sioned, highlighting the urgent need for the EU to move to a 30% greenhouse gas reduction
target for 2020, to introduce an Emissions Performance Standard, and to end decades of
subsidies for new coal build and its fuel;
• The EU power sector continues its move away from fuel oil and nuclear, with each technology
continuing to decommission more than it installs;
Wind power installations
• Annual installations of wind power have increased steadily over the last 17 years from 814
MW in 1995 to 9,616 MW in 2011, an annual average market growth of 15.6%;
• A total of 93,957 MW is now installed in the European Union, an increase in installed cumu-
lative capacity of 11% compared to the previous year;
• Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed capacity, followed by Spain,
France, Italy and the UK;
• Growth in onshore installations in Germany and Sweden, and offshore in the UK - together
with continuing strong performance from some emerging onshore markets in Eastern Europe
– have more than offset the fall in installations in mature markets such as France and Spain;
• The wind capacity installed by the end of 2011 would, in a normal year, produce 204 TWh of
electricity, representing 6.3% of electricity consumption – up from 5.3% the year before.
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4. FINLAND
197
SWEDEN
Wind power installed in europe by end of 2,907
2011 (cumulative)2011 european sTaTisTics
Wind in poWer:
NORWAY RUSSIA
520 n/a***
ESTONIA
184
LATVIA 31
DENMARK LITHUANIA 179
3,871*
IRELAND
1,631
FAROE ISLANDS UNITED
4 KINGDOM
6,540
NETHERLANDS POLAND
2,328 1,616 UKRAINE
GERMANY
151
BELGIUM 29,060
1,078 CZECH
LUXEMBOURG REPUBLIC
44 217 SLOVAKIA 3
AUSTRIA
HUNGARY
FRANCE SWITZERLAND 1,084
329
6,800* 46 ROMANIA
SLOVENIA 982
0
CROATIA
131
BULGARIA
612*
ITALY
6,747* FYROM**
PORTUGAL
4,083 0
SPAIN
TURKEY
21,674
GREECE 1,799
1,629
installed end installed end
2010 2010 2011 2011 MALTA
EU Capacity (MW) 0
Austria 19 1,014 73 1,084 European Union: 93,957 MW
CYPRUS
134
Belgium 325 886 192 1,078 Candidate Countries: 1,930 MW
Bulgaria 322 500 112* 612*
EFTA: 565 MW
Cyprus 82 82 52 134
Czech Republic 23 215 2 217
Total Europe: 96,607 MW
Denmark 315 3,749 178 3,871 installed 2010 end 2010 installed 2011 end 2011
Estonia 7 149 35 184 candidate countries (MW)
Finland 52 197 0 197 Croatia 61 89 42 131
France 1,396 5,970 830* 6,800* FYROM** 0 0 0 0
Germany 1,493 27,191 2,086 29,060 Serbia 0 0 0 0
Greece 238 1,323 311 1,629 Turkey 528 1,329 470 1,799
Hungary 94 295 34 329 Total 589 1,418 512 1,930
Ireland 82 1,392 239 1,631 eFTa (MW)
Italy 948 5,797 950* 6,747* Iceland 0 0 0 0
Latvia 2 30 1 31 Liechtenstein 0 0 0 0
Lithuania 72 163 16 179 Norway 18 436 84 520
Luxembourg 1 44 0 44
Switzerland 25 42 3 46
Malta 0 0 0 0
Total 43 478 87 565
Netherlands 56 2,269 68 2,328
Poland 456 1,180 436 1,616 Of which
offshore and 0 2 0 2
Portugal 171 3,706 377 4,083 near shore
Romania 448 462 520 982 other (MW)
Slovakia 0 3 0 3 Faroe Islands 0 4 0 4
Slovenia 0 0 0 0 Ukraine 1 87 66 151
Spain 1,463 20,623 1,050 21,674 Russia 0 9 n/a*** n/a***
Sweden 604 2,163 763 2,907 Total 1 101 66 164
United Kingdom 1,005 5,204 1,293 6,540 Total europe 10,280 86,647 10,281 96,607
Total eu-27 9,648 84,650 9,616 93,957
Total eu-15 8,144 81,571 8,409 89,670 * Provisional
** Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Total eu-12 1,504 3,079 1,208 4,287 *** Figure not communicated
Of which Note: Due to previous year adjustments, 216.03 MW of project de-commissioning, re-powering
offshore and 883 2,944 866 3,810 and rounding of figures, the total 2011 end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent
near shore to the sum of the 2010 end-of-year total plus the 2011 additions.
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5. 2011 annual installations
Wind power capacity installations
During 2011, 10,281(1) MW of wind power was EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR NEW CAPACITY
installed across Europe, of which 9,616 MW was in INSTALLED DURING 2011 IN MW. TOTAL 9,616 MW FIGURE 1.1
the European Union, similar to the previous year.
Greece
Of the 9,616 MW installed in the EU, 8,750 MW was 311
onshore and 866 MW offshore. In 2011, the annual 3%
onshore market remained stable compared to the Portugal Others
previous year, whilst the offshore market decreased 377 1,001
4% 10% Germany
slightly (-1.9%). 2,086
Poland 22%
436
Investment in EU wind farms in 2011 was €12.6 billion, 5%
a similar figure to 2010. The onshore wind power UK
Romania 1,293
sector attracted €10.2 billion, while the offshore wind 520 13%
power sector accounted for around €2.4 bn (19%). 5%
Sweden Spain
In terms of annual installations, Germany was by far 763 Italy 1,050
8% 950 11%
the largest market in 2011, installing almost 2,100
10%
MW of new capacity. The UK came in second with just France
under 1,300 MW, 752 MW of which (58%) offshore, 830
9%
followed by Spain with 1,050 MW. Italy (950 MW),
France (830 MW) and Sweden (763 MW) are followed
by Romania (520 MW). MW). Both remain among the 10 biggest EU markets
for the second year running.
Among the emerging markets, after Romania, Poland
installed the second most capacity in 2011 (436 Offshore accounted for 8.9% of total EU wind power
installations in 2011.
Photo: RES
(1)
Figures for Russia were not available at time of publishing
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Power capacity installations 2011 SHARE OF NEW POWER INSTALLATIONS IN EU FIGURE 1.2
Wind power accounted for 21.4% of new installations
in 2011, the third biggest share after solar PV (46.7%) Nuclear CSP Biomass Waste Geothermal
331 472 234.1 69 32
and gas (21.6%). 1% 1% 0% 0% 0%
Large hydro
Small hydro
Solar PV installed 21,000 MW (46.7% of total 606
9
1%
capacity), followed by gas with 9,718 MW (21.6%), 0%
and wind with 9,616 MW (21.4%). Fuel oil Ocean
700 5
2% 0%
No other technologies compare to wind, PV and gas
in terms of new installations. Coal installed 2.2 GW Coal
Wind PV
2,147
(4.8% of total installations), fuel oil 700 MW (1.6%), 5%
9,616 21,000
large hydro 607 MW (1.3%) and CSP 472 MW (1.1%). 21% 47%
Nuclear (331 MW), biomass (234 MW), waste (69
MW), geothermal (32 MW) and ocean technologies
Gas
(4.5 MW), each represented less than 1% of new 9,718.3
capacity installations. 22%
Overall, 2011 was a record year in the EU, with 45 GW
of new electricity generating capacity installed, a 3.9%
increase compared to 2010.
NEW INSTALLED CAPACITY AND DECOMMISSIONED CAPACITY IN MW. TOTAL 35,468 MW FIGURE 1.3
25,000
21,000
20,000
15,000
9,718 9,616
10,000
5,000
2,147
700 606 472 331 234 690 32 9 5
0
-216 -22 -60
-934 -840 -1,147
-5,000
-6,253
PV Gas Wind Coal Fuel Large CSP Nuclear Biomass Waste Geo- Small Ocean
oil hydro thermal hydro
New capacity Decommissioned
During 2011, 6.3 GW of nuclear capacity was decom- MW). This hike in new coal power capacity highlights
missioned, and over 1 GW of fuel oil capacity was the urgent need for the EU to move to a 30% green-
taken offline. Gas decommissioned 934 MW, coal 840 house gas reduction target for 2020, to introduce an
MW and wind 216 MW. Emissions Performance Standard, and to end decades
of subsidies for new coal build and its fuel.
For the second year running, coal installed more
capacity (2,147 MW) than it decommissioned (840
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7. Renewable power capacity installations
More renewable generating capacity was installed in 2011 SHARE OF NEW RENEWABLE CAPACITY INSTALLATIONS
the EU in 2011 than ever before - 32 GW, representing (TOTAL 32,043 MW) FIGURE 1.4
71.3% of all new installations. Since 2008 renewable
capacity installations have represented more than half Waste Geothermal
of all new installed capacity. 69 32
0% 0%
Small hydro
Biomass
8.6
234 0%
1%
Ocean
CSP 4.5
472 0%
1%
Large
Wind
hydro
9,616
606
30%
2%
PV
21,000
66%
Trends & cumulative installations
Renewable power installations
In 2000, new renewable power installations totalled GW (53.8%) in 2010, and 32 GW (71.3%) in 2011.
3.5 GW. Renewable capacity installations have been
growing almost tenfold over the past 11 years, to 302.6 GW of new power capacity has been installed
reach 32 GW in 2011. since 2000. Of this, 28.2% has been wind power,
47.8% renewables, and 90.8% renewables and gas
The share of renewables in total capacity additions combined.
has also grown. In 2000, the 3.5 GW represented
20.7% of new power installations, increasing to 23.3
EU INSTALLED POWER GENERATING CAPACITY PER YEAR IN MW AND RES SHARE (%) FIGURE 2.1
50,000
71.3%
45,000 53.8%
40,000
35,000
31.5%
30,000 63.7%
46.2%
25,000
32.8% 33.5% 56.8%
20,000 34.4%
12.3% 20.7%
RES
38.2% 44.4%
15,000 27.2%
15.4% 21.5%
13.1%
10,000
5,000
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Peat Fuel oil Nuclear Coal Gas
Ocean CSP Small hydro Waste Biomass
Geothermal Large hydro PV Wind
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Net changes in EU installed capacity 2000-2011
The net growth since 2000 of gas power (116 GW), also been increasing installed capacity over the past
wind power (84.2 GW) and solar PV (47.4 MW) was decade, albeit more slowly than wind and solar PV.
at the expense of fuel oil (down 14.2 GW), nuclear
(down 13.5 GW) and coal (down 10.3 GW). 2011 saw The 21st century sees the EU power sector moving
a sharp decrease in nuclear capacity due to the early away from fuel oil, coal and nuclear while continuing to
decommissioning of a number of reactors in Germany. increase its total installed capacity with gas, wind and
The other renewable technologies (hydro, biomass, solar PV to meet increasing demand.
waste, CSP geothermal and ocean energies) have
,
NET ELECTRICITY GENERATING INSTALLATIONS IN EU 2000-2011 IN GW FIGURE 2.2
120 116
100
84
80
60
47
40
20
4 3 2 1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.01
0
-10
20 -14 -14
Gas Wind PV Large Biomass Waste CSP Small Geo- Peat Ocean Coal Nuclear Fuel
hydro hydro thermal oil
Total installed power capacity
Wind power’s share of total installed power capacity same period, renewable capacity increased by a third
over the last decade has increased more than four- from 22.5% in 2000 to 31.1% in 2011.
fold from 2.2% in 2000 to 10.5% in 2011. Over the
EU POWER CAPACITY MIX 2000 FIGURE 2.3 EU POWER CAPACITY MIX 2011 FIGURE 2.4
Peat Wind Peat PV
1,868 12,887 2,030 46,300
Fuel oil 0%
0% 2% 53,745 5%
Small hydro 6% Biomass
Fuel oil 4,514 6,019
66,518 Large hydro 1% Large hydro 1%
12% Biomass 121,243 Small hydro
105,552 14%
Gas 18% 2,790 Gas 4,845
89,801 Wind 1%
1% 209,953 93,957
16% 23% 10%
Waste Waste
2,054 3,804
0% 0%
Nuclear Coal PV Geothermal
128,471 159,482 188 Nuclear Coal 924
22% 28% 0% 121,444 230,253 0%
14% 26%
Geothermal Ocean CSP
604 254 1107
0% 0% 0%
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9. A closer look at wind power installations
Annual wind power installations
Annual wind power installations in the EU have MW in 1996 to 9,616 MW in 2011, an average annual
increased steadily over the past 17 years from 814 growth rate of 15.6%.
ANNUAL WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN EU IN GW FIGURE 3.1
12
10.5
10 9.6 9.6
8.5 8.3
8 7.6
6.2
5.9 5.8
6 5.5
4.4
4
3.2 3.2
2 1.7
1.3
0.8 1
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
National breakdown of wind power installations
In 2000, the annual wind power installations of the additions. In 2011, this share has decreased to 34%.
three pioneering countries – Denmark, Germany and Wind power is increasingly being installed across
Spain – represented 85% of all EU wind capacity Europe.
DENMARK, GERMANY AND SPAIN’S SHARE OF EU WIND POWER MARKET (GW) FIGURE 3.2
100%
0.5 0.6 0.7
90% 1.2
1.7
80% 2.6 3.4
3.8
5.8
70% 5.1 6 6.3
60%
50%
2.7 3.8 5.2
40% 4.3
4.1
30% 3.6 5.2
3.8
4.7
20% 3.4 3.4 3.3
10%
0%
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Rest of EU Germany, Spain, Denmark
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Onshore and offshore annual markets
In 2011, offshore wind’s share of total installations was 9%, compared to 9.2% in 2010.
ANNUAL ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS IN MW FIGURE 3.3
11000 582
883 866
9000 318 373
93
7000
259 90
51
170
5000 9,929
4
8,764 8,750
8,201 7,935
7,526
3000 5,743 5,749 6,114
5,203
4,377
1000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Offshore Onshore
Cumulative wind power installations
A total of 93,957 MW is now installed in the European Nine other countries have over 1 GW of installed
Union, a growth of 11% on the previous year. Germany capacity: Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden,
remains the EU country with the largest installed Ireland, Greece, Poland, Austria and Belgium.
capacity, followed by Spain, Italy, France and the UK.
CUMULATIVE WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN THE EU (GW) EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR TOTAL INSTALLED
FIGURE 3.4 CAPACITY AT END 2011 (TOTAL 93.7 GW) FIGURE 3.5
100 Sweden Netherlands Ireland
94 2.9 2.3 1.6
90 3% 3% 2%
84.6
Denmark
80 3.9
75.1
4% Other
70
64.7 8.3
Portugal
60 56.5 4.1 9%
4% Germany
50 48
29.1
UK
40.5
6.5 31%
40
34.4 7%
30 28.5
23.1
Italy
6.7
20 17.3
12.9
7% Spain
9.7 21.7
10 France
4.8 6.5 23%
2.5 3.5 6.8
7%
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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11. Estimated wind energy production
The wind capacity installed at end 2011 will, in a normal (almost 26%), followed by Spain (15.9%), Portugal
wind year, produce 204 TWh of electricity, representing (15.6%), Ireland (12%) and Germany (10.6%). Overall,
6.3% of the EU’s gross final consumption(2). in a normal wind year, installed wind capacity at end
2011 will meet 6.3% of the EU’s electricity needs.
Denmark remains the country with the highest
penetration of wind power in electricity consumption
WIND SHARE OF TOTAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION FIGURE 3.6
Denmark 25.9%
Spain 15.9%
Portugal 15.6%
Ireland 12%
Germany 10.6%
EU 6.3%
Cyprus 5.4%
Greece 5.2%
Sweden 4.5%
UK 4.5%
Estonia 4.4%
Netherlands 4.4%
Italy 4.2%
Romania 3.7%
Bulgaria 3.4%
Austria 3.3%
Lithuania 3%
Belgium 2.9%
France 2.8%
Poland 2.3%
Hungary 1.7%
Luxembourg 1.3%
Latvia 0.9%
Czech Republic 0.7%
Finland 0.5%
Slovakia 0%
Slovenia 0%
Malta 0%
5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
(2)
According to the latest figures from Eurostat, gross electricity consumption in the EU was 3,225.2 TWh in 2009
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