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Wind Industry Statistics

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Wind Industry Statistics
Samuel NorbergWritten by Samuel Norberg·Fact-checked by Maya Johansson
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How this report is researched
01Editorial Scope

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02Source Research

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01 Industry overview

The wind industry at a glance

Wind power reached a record 165 GW of new global capacity in 2025, as China-led manufacturing and demand growth pushed the industry into a new expansion phase.

165 GW[40]
New capacity added, 2025
5.2%[94]
Forecast installation CAGR, 2026–2030
304 GW[77]
Europe installed capacity, 2025
86%[40]
Top five markets’ additions, 2025
Market size
Global wind developers installed a record 165 GW of new capacity in 2025, up 40% from the previous annual record. Europe ended 2025 with 304 GW of installed wind capacity, including 265 GW onshore and 39 GW offshore.[40][77]
Forecast & CAGR
GWEC projects 969 GW of new wind capacity during 2026–2030, equivalent to a 5.2% annual growth rate, with annual installations reaching 211.8 GW by 2030. The IEA forecasts cumulative global onshore wind capacity to rise 1.7-fold to 2,040 GW by 2031.[94][70]
Market share & regions
China, the United States, India, Germany and Brazil accounted for 86% of global new wind capacity in 2025. In Europe, the EU-27 represented 246 GW of the region’s 304 GW total, while offshore capacity stood at 39 GW.[40][77]
Segmentation
Onshore wind remained the dominant segment in 2025: Europe installed 90% of its 19.1 GW of new capacity onshore, while only 2 GW was offshore. Globally, average turbine size reached 6,160 kW onshore and 10,312 kW offshore.[77][40]
Key players & concentration
Chinese manufacturers held the five leading global turbine-supplier positions by installed capacity in 2025: Goldwind installed 29.7 GW, followed by Envision at 21.8 GW, Windey at 19.8 GW, Mingyang at 18.6 GW and SANY at 15.1 GW. Outside mainland China, Vestas led with 12.9 GW.[40]
Pricing
Berkeley Lab reported an average wind-turbine transaction price of about $1,070 per kW in 2024, based on industry transaction and supplier data. The U.S. Department of Energy reported land-based turbine prices of approximately $850–$950 per kW in 2022, after substantial declines from 2008–2020.[23][41]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Growth is being driven by energy-security concerns, policy support and expanding electricity demand, but grid constraints, permitting delays, financing costs and curtailment remain significant barriers. The IEA reports that global renewable additions reached 800 GW in 2025 despite supply-chain strains and grid-connection delays.[70]
M&A
Consolidation continued in project development and offshore services. LS Power completed its acquisition of bp’s U.S. onshore wind business in 2025, while DEME completed its acquisition of Norwegian offshore-wind contractor Havfram after announcing the deal in April 2025.[95][96]
Regulation
The EU Net-Zero Industry Act covers onshore and offshore renewable technologies and requires member states to establish single points of contact to coordinate permitting. In 2025, the European Commission also adopted guidance for assessing net-zero strategic-project applications.[97]
Latest news
The IEA’s November 2026 Renewables report projects global annual renewable additions to average almost 800 GW during 2026–2031, 57% above the 2020–2025 average. Its wind outlook expects faster deployment in Europe and the United States to offset a slowdown in China, leaving global wind additions broadly stable relative to 2025.[70]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Wind Industry

The leading companies in the wind industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 10, 2026 · Next review December 10, 2026

Verdict

GE Vernova leads Gitnux's 2026 wind ranking with an Overall score of 9.4, with ~55,000 installed wind turbines in its base. Envision Energy is the highest-ranked wind farm systems provider at 9.0, driven by 20+ GW of 2025 installations reported.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in wind turbine manufacturing

    GE Vernova

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.4 · Wind turbine manufacturing

    Why we picked it: Its onshore and offshore turbine installed base is quantified at ~55,000 units.

    See in ranking ↓Visit gevernova.com ↗

  2. Leader in wind farm systems

    Envision Energy

    CN

    Ranked #2 · 9.0 · Wind farm systems

    Why we picked it: Its smart turbines and wind farm systems show scale via 20+ GW of 2025 installations.

    See in ranking ↓Visit envision-group.com ↗

  3. #3 overall

    Siemens Energy

    DE

    Ranked #3 · 9.0 · Wind turbine manufacturing

    Why we picked it: Its turbine and services footprint is reflected in EUR 10.4 billion 2025 revenue.

    See in ranking ↓Visit siemens-energy.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Pick 2 is the highest-ranked company in the top 5 that adds a new segment; no further segment places in the top 5, so pick 3 follows rank.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the wind industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

GE Vernova

Wind turbine manufacturing · US

9.4
2

Envision Energy

Wind farm systems · CN

9.0
3

Siemens Energy

Wind turbine manufacturing · DE

9.0
4

Suzlon

Wind turbine manufacturing · IN

8.9
5

Vestas

Wind turbine manufacturing · DK

8.9
6

Iberdrola

Onshore and offshore wind generation · ES

8.7
7

Ørsted

Offshore wind development and generation · DK

8.5
8

SANY Renewable Energy

Wind turbines and wind farm development · CN

8.5
9

Enercon

Onshore wind turbines and service · DE

8.4
10

RWE

Onshore and offshore wind generation · DE

8.0

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 10, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Samuel Norberg. (2026, November 10). Top 10 companies in the wind industry. In Wind Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/wind-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Projection

Global cumulative offshore wind power capacity

Global cumulative offshore wind power capacity grew from 34K MW in 2020 to 91K MW in 2025.

34.3K MW
Start
+21.62%
CAGR · 5y
91.4K MW
Projected
20202025
source-verifiedirena.org2025

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

Automation and AI for inspection and maintenance show quantified deltas, including 68% trajectory deviation reduction and 14.0% lower annual maintenance cost.

AI in the wind industry

  • 68% was the reduction in average deviation from an optimal UAV inspection trajectory achieved by an automated wind-turbine inspection method in 2024.[1]
  • 2.5 MW was the rated capacity of each of the five wind turbines in the SCADA database released for machine-learning maintenance research in 2024.[2]
  • 94% average accuracy was achieved by an LSTM artificial-intelligence model for predicting wind-turbine gearbox and generator failures from SCADA data in Brazil in 2023.[3]
  • 37.0% higher overall mAP@50 and 98.8% higher tiny-defect mAP@50 were achieved by an adaptive AI inspection system for wind-turbine blades in 2026.[4]
  • 3 years of SCADA data from five 2.5 MW Fuhrländer FL2500 wind turbines were released in Germany in 2024 to support intelligent operation and maintenance research.[2]
  • 94% defect-detection accuracy and 1.5 hours of inspection time per turbine were reported for an AI-assisted UAV monitoring system tested at Ukraine’s Staryi Sambir-1 wind power plant in 2024.[1]

Automation in the wind industry

  • 37% less time was required for robotic cable-tray assembly than manual assembly in a wind-turbine manufacturing test published in 2026.[5]
  • 2% lower inspection costs for wind-farm operators were estimated for drone inspection compared with conventional inspection in a United Kingdom offshore-wind study.[6]
  • 0.7% of offshore-wind operating expenditure was attributed to rope-access inspection in the baseline model for a United Kingdom drone-inspection study.[6]
  • 25 minutes was the automated-manual collaborative assembly time for wind-turbine cable trays, compared with 40 minutes manually, in a 2026 test.[5]
  • 1.2 to 1.9 percentage points of availability improvement was reported for autonomous offshore-wind operations and maintenance campaigns in a 2026 review.[7]
  • 1.5 hours was the automated UAV inspection time per wind turbine reported for the Staryi Sambir-1 wind power plant in Ukraine in 2024.[1]

Digital Transformation in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • 92% of energy companies planned digital technology investments, while 27% were retraining and reskilling existing employees, according to a 2024 survey.[8]
  • 73% of power and utilities companies said their organizational culture impeded digital-technology adoption in a global survey conducted in late 2024.[8]
  • 100% of utilities globally had initiated digital transformation, while 20% had completed it, according to a global survey conducted in 2024.[9]
  • 84% of energy and utilities organizations were investing in digital modernization in 2026, while 20% had begun reorganizing engineering operations.[10]

Technology Adoption in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • 78% of power and utilities organizations were using advanced analytics in 2024, according to EY’s global Future of Energy Survey.[8]
  • 79% of power and utilities organizations were using cyber-threat monitoring and intelligence platforms covering IT and operational technology in 2024.[8]
  • 73% of power and utilities organizations were using artificial intelligence, generative AI or machine learning in 2024, based on a global industry survey.[8]
  • 62% of power and utilities organizations were using robotic process automation in 2024, according to a global survey of industry executives and employees.[8]

Cloud Computing in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • 79% of power and utilities organizations were using cloud computing in 2024, according to a global EY survey.[8]
  • 32% of power and utilities organizations using cloud computing planned improvements or new uses during the following five years in 2024.[8]
  • 45% of energy companies used only the cloud capacity and functions they had committed to, according to an Infosys industry study published in 2024.[11]
  • 63% of power and utilities organizations were using cloud computing while developing improvements or new applications in 2024.[8]
  • 41% of energy companies allowed any department head or IT manager to deploy new cloud infrastructure, software or applications in an Infosys study.[11]

Big Data in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • 86% of utilities used advanced-metering-infrastructure data enterprise-wide or in specific workflows in 2026, according to a global utility executive survey.[12]
  • 25% of utilities reported extensive use of analytics for business intelligence and billing or revenue analysis in a survey of 190 organizations.[13]
  • 78% of power and utilities organizations were using advanced analytics in 2024, a sector-specific proxy for big-data adoption in EY’s global survey.[8]
  • 20% of electric utilities had already implemented big-data analytics, while 32% were implementing it, in a survey covering 10 countries.[14]
  • 41% of utilities said advanced-metering-infrastructure data was fully embedded and scalable across daily workflows in 2026.[12]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Digital-twin and condition-monitoring efforts emphasize selectable turbine data sources and forecasting horizons, including 61 hours of forecasting and 40% lower maintenance cost.

Business intelligence in the wind industry

  • 5-minute aggregation intervals were used for the SCADA variables in the published database of five wind turbines.[2]
  • Nearly $500,000 in lost energy was identified through analytics at Evergy’s 281-MW Western Plains Wind Farm.[15]
  • More than 70,000 turbines are available as selectable data sources in Siemens Gamesa’s digital-twin operational platform.[16]
  • 61 hours was the forecasting horizon of a digital twin that predicted hourly power production for each turbine and the whole wind farm.[1]
  • 281 MW is the capacity of Evergy’s Western Plains Wind Farm analyzed by ONYX Insight to identify efficiency losses and improve O&M decisions.[15]
  • 3 years of SCADA records were published for five Fuhrländer FL2500 wind turbines to support intelligent operation and maintenance analysis.[2]

Data analytics in the wind industry

  • 40% lower maintenance cost and a 1.8-percentage-point increase in production availability were reported for an optimization model applied to wind-power maintenance scheduling.[1]
  • 42.3% lower false-positive costs were reported for a physics-informed neural-network approach than for commercial condition-monitoring systems.[17]
  • 91.8% gearbox-fault prediction accuracy was reported for the physics-informed neural-network method.[17]
  • 14.0% lower annual maintenance cost was reported for an AI-enabled predictive-analytics method applied to wind turbines.[17]
  • 31% of original SCADA data was retained on average per wind farm after preprocessing for a machine-learning condition-monitoring framework.[1]
  • 82.7% improvement in mean time between failures was reported after applying the AI-driven wind-energy maintenance approach.[18]

Data Quality in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across electric utilities surveyed, 77% reported no erosion in data quality over time.[19]
  • Across water utilities, 10% of respondents rated asset condition and performance information as very good in 2026.[20]
  • Across water utilities, 19% of respondents rated asset characteristics information as very good in 2026.[20]
  • Across water utilities, 8% of respondents rated asset O&M cost information as very good in 2026.[20]
  • Across water utilities, 7% of respondents rated asset information in EAM or CMMS as very good in 2026.[20]
  • Across electric utilities surveyed, 69% reported user confidence in data accuracy, compared with 77% for completeness.[19]

Data Governance in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across utilities surveyed, 56% had some form of inventory covering data sources and data-quality, integration, and analytics tools in 2020.[21]
  • Across power and utility executives surveyed, 57% assessed data-governance maturity as developing or initial in 2021; none reported advanced practices.[8]
  • Across utilities surveyed, 9% had fully implemented an enterprise-wide data-governance program in 2020.[21]
  • Across energy and utilities organizations, 65% reported that all or nearly all of their data was governed in 2026.[22]
  • Across utilities surveyed, 6% reported fully traceable data from original source to decision-making or business processes in 2020.[21]
  • Across utilities surveyed, 50% estimated they were still three to five years away from enterprise-level data governance in 2020.[21]

KPIs in the wind industry

  • $60/MWh was the 2023 average grid-system market value of wind in California’s CAISO region.[23]
  • $13/MWh was the 2023 average grid-system market value of wind in the Southwest Power Pool.[23]
  • 85.6% was the GADS availability reported for the Canadian wind R&D park in 2014.[24]
  • 38.2% was the average 2023 capacity factor for U.S. land-based wind projects built in 2022.[23]
  • 36.1% was the cumulative fleet-wide capacity factor for U.S. land-based wind projects built through 2022, measured in 2022.[23]
  • 95% is the approximate availability level commonly cited for wind farms in a World Energy Council technical-performance-indicator document.[25]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Capacity growth and turbine scale trends anchor the outlook, including 165 GW new additions in 2025 and global average turbine size at 6,160 kW onshore.

Growth in the wind industry

  • 11.5% was global wind-capacity growth in 2024, down from 13.0% in 2023.[26]
  • 9 GW of offshore wind capacity was added globally in 2025, compared with 8 GW in 2024.[27]
  • 86.7 GW of new wind capacity was installed in China in 2024, the largest national market.[26]
  • 14.3% was the global annual wind-capacity growth rate in 2025, up from 11.9% in 2024.[26]
  • 130 GW of new wind capacity was installed in China in 2025, representing 77% of global additions.[28]
  • 127 GW of wind turbines were mechanically installed worldwide in 2024, including projects not yet grid-connected.[29]

Differentiation in the wind industry

  • 23,098 wind turbines were installed worldwide by 29 manufacturers in 2024.[30]
  • 38.6% was the combined cumulative global installation share of Goldwind, Envision and Mingyang at the end of 2024.[31]
  • 91.3% of global wind-turbine installations used geared-drive systems in 2024.[30]
  • 58% was GE Vernova’s share of U.S. wind-turbine installations by megawatt in 2024.[23]
  • 58.6% of wind turbines installed globally in 2024 had rotor diameters larger than 180 metres, up from 42.9% in 2023.[30]
  • 37% was the combined cumulative global installation share of Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Enercon and Nordex at the end of 2024.[31]

Mergers and acquisitions in the wind industry

  • 4.2 GW was the capacity of the Norfolk Boreas/Vanguard area acquired by RWE in the United Kingdom in 2024.[32]
  • 49% was the ownership interest EGCO Group acquired in the 126 MW Downeast Wind farm in Maine in 2025.[33]
  • $3.0 billion was the reported value of Dominion Energy’s sale of a 50% stake in Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind in the United States in 2024.[32]
  • €2.53 million per megawatt was the average transaction value for offshore-wind assets across all project stages in 2024.[34]
  • $11.0 billion of offshore-wind transactions closed globally in 2024.[32]
  • 78% of onshore-wind transactions involved acquisition of the full asset in 2024.[34]

Strategic partnerships in the wind industry

  • 50:50 was the ownership structure of the Revolution Wind joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables in the United States in 2025.[35]
  • 50:50 was the ownership structure of the JERA Nex bp offshore-wind joint venture formed in 2025.[36]
  • 1.6 GW was the offshore-wind project capacity covered by the 2024 Ørsted–Incheon City agreement in South Korea.[37]
  • Up to 6 GW of clean-energy projects were identified for potential development through the 2025 Octopus Energy–Ming Yang partnership in the United Kingdom.[38]
  • 8.4 GW was the offshore-wind capacity Ørsted had divested to partners by June 30, 2025.[39]
  • 65 wind turbines were planned for Revolution Wind, with 45 installed when the project was 80% complete in August 2025.[35]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Workforce needs are quantified: 532,000 wind technicians expected by 2028 to build and maintain wind fleets.

Hiring in the wind industry

  • 40% of global wind-technician roles needed by 2028 are expected to be filled by new industry entrants.[40]
  • 532,000 wind technicians will be needed globally by 2028 to build and maintain wind fleets.[40]
  • 93% of U.S. wind-electric-power-generation manufacturing employers reported at least some difficulty hiring qualified workers in 2024.[41]
  • 2.5% was the anticipated 2024–2025 employment increase among U.S. wind-electric-power-generation utility employers.[41]
  • 9.9% was the anticipated 2024–2025 employment increase among U.S. wind-electric-power-generation manufacturing employers.[41]

Employee retention in the wind industry

  • 12.3% was Nordex’s overall employee turnover rate in 2025.[42]
  • 25.97% was Inox Wind’s permanent-employee turnover ratio in the financial year ended March 31, 2025.[43]
  • 1,323 Nordex employees left the company during 2025.[42]
  • 10%–20% was the reported staff-turnover range among Scottish onshore-wind independent service providers.[44]
  • 31 was Vestas’s employee Net Promoter Score in 2025.[42]

Remote Work in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. utilities, 18.2% of employees worked fully remotely in November 2024.[45]
  • U.S. utilities employees worked 31.42% of paid days from home in 2024.[46]
  • U.S. utilities employees worked 22.32% of paid days from home in 2026.[46]
  • Among U.S. utility employers recruiting new graduates, 9.3% of positions were fully remote in 2024.[47]

Hybrid Work in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. utilities, 32.5% of employees worked in hybrid arrangements in November 2024.[45]
  • Across U.S. utilities, 51% of full-time employees worked either hybrid or fully from home during September–December 2024.[48]
  • Among U.S. utility employers recruiting new graduates, 43.4% of positions were fully hybrid in 2024.[47]
  • U.S. utilities had 28% of full-time employees in hybrid arrangements during September–December 2024.[48]

Upskilling in the wind industry

  • 467,135 onshore wind technicians were projected to be required globally in 2024.[40]
  • 900,500 cumulative training hours were delivered to Siemens Gamesa employees in fiscal year 2019.[49]
  • 35,000 entry-level workers in North America were expected to require Global Wind Organisation basic training between 2024 and 2027.[50]
  • 35% of the estimated global wind-technician workforce held at least one valid Global Wind Organisation training certificate at the end of 2024.[40]
  • 18,000 Siemens Gamesa employees received training in fiscal year 2019.[49]

Employee Engagement in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. utilities, 70% of employees were engaged in the July 2025–June 2026 benchmark period.[51]
  • Among frontline energy and utilities workers, 57% said workplace communication tools were designed for desk workers rather than them in 2025.[52]
  • At Southern California Edison, 82% of employees gave a favorable overall engagement response in 2022.[53]
  • Among U.S. energy and utility organizations, 54% reported that frontline disengagement affected productivity in 2023.[54]

DEI in the wind industry

  • 22% of the United Kingdom’s offshore-wind workforce were women according to the cited Scottish Government assessment.[55]
  • 41% of Vestas employees were represented by an independent trade union or covered by collective bargaining agreements in 2024.[56]
  • 8% of senior leadership roles across the global wind value chain were held by women according to the cited global study.[40]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Customer experience in the wind industry

  • 89.10 points was customer satisfaction with technical support in the disclosed wind-industry survey.[57]
  • 90.75 points was the comprehensive engineering-side customer-satisfaction score reported by a Chinese wind-power company in its latest disclosed survey.[57]
  • 89.29 points was customer satisfaction with spare-parts assurance in the disclosed wind-industry survey.[57]
  • 91.03 points was customer satisfaction with product quality in the disclosed wind-industry survey.[57]
  • 93.08 points was customer satisfaction with generating-unit power-generation performance in the disclosed wind-industry survey.[57]

Customer retention in the wind industry

  • More than 85% was Nordex’s renewal rate for expiring service contracts covering 800 turbines and 2,150 MW in 2024.[58]
  • 30 years was the maximum duration of Vestas comprehensive service contracts disclosed in its 2020 annual report.[56]
  • 11 years was Vestas’s average service-contract duration in its backlog at the end of 2024.[56]
  • 2,150 MW was the capacity covered by Nordex service-contract extensions in 2024.[58]
  • 800 turbines had expiring Nordex service contracts extended in 2024.[58]

Customer acquisition in the wind industry

  • EUR 18.8 billion was Vestas’s revenue in 2025, its highest reported annual revenue at that time.[56]
  • More than 56,000 wind turbines across 71 countries were covered by Vestas active service contracts at the end of 2024.[56]
  • 8,500 MW was the capacity represented by Nordex’s 227 newly signed service projects in 2024.[58]
  • More than 1,500 turbines were covered by Nordex’s new long-term Premium Service contracts signed in 2024.[58]
  • EUR 36.8 billion was Vestas’s service-order backlog at the end of 2024.[56]

Customer loyalty in the wind industry

  • 44 was Vestas Service’s Customer Net Promoter Score in its 2024 customer-loyalty survey.[56]
  • 76 was Ørsted’s residential-customer satisfaction score in Denmark in 2017 on a 0–100 scale.[39]
  • 71 was Ørsted’s residential-customer loyalty score in Denmark in 2017 on a 0–100 scale.[39]
  • 9 out of 10 customers said they would recommend wpd windmanager and its services in the company’s 2019 satisfaction survey.[59]
  • 72 was Ørsted’s residential-customer loyalty score in Denmark in 2018 on a 0–100 scale.[39]

Lead generation in the wind industry

  • 13 high-value account-based-marketing sales meetings were generated by the wind-blade-monitoring campaign.[60]
  • 10.4% was the reply rate from a 90-day targeted outbound campaign for a wind-blade-monitoring company.[60]
  • Approximately 2.5–3.4% was the reply rate for the analyzed DACH wind-and-renewables outbound campaign in 2026.[61]
  • 2,600+ wind and renewable-energy contacts were reached in the DACH outbound campaign analyzed by CegTec in 2026.[61]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Wind-industry communications are tracked through campaign delivery metrics, including 8,302,819 impressions and 16,860 clicks for South Fork Wind in 2021.

Marketing in the wind industry

  • 8,302,819 impressions were delivered by the South Fork Wind programmatic display campaign in the United States in 2021.[62]
  • $44,941 was spent on the South Fork Wind programmatic display campaign in the United States in 2021.[62]
  • 0.28% was the click-through rate for geo-fenced placements in the South Fork Wind campaign in the United States in 2021.[62]
  • 259,369 impressions were delivered by South Fork Wind streaming audio advertising in the United States in 2021.[62]
  • 16,860 clicks came from geo-fenced placements in the South Fork Wind campaign in the United States in 2021.[62]

Digital marketing in the wind industry

  • 52,000 monthly social followers were reported for Windpower Monthly’s wind-industry media audience in 2024.[63]
  • 10,000 engagements were recorded on Crossflow Energy’s LinkedIn company page during the first year of its program in the United Kingdom.[64]
  • 3,704 new followers were gained by Crossflow Energy executives’ LinkedIn profiles in the United Kingdom.[64]
  • 7,385 engagements were generated by Crossflow Energy executives’ LinkedIn profiles in the United Kingdom.[64]
  • 60,000 monthly unique users were reached by Windpower Monthly’s wind-industry media audience in 2024.[63]

Branding in the wind industry

  • 2.9% of EU respondents rated wind farms negatively in the WENDY survey.[65]
  • 34.0% of EU respondents considered onshore wind farms fully acceptable in the WENDY survey.[65]
  • 50,763 likes, shares and comments were generated by Andel’s Windy Retreats campaign in Denmark.[66]
  • 7.8% of EU respondents rated wind farms positively in the WENDY survey.[65]
  • 33.6% of EU respondents were concerned about shadows or flicker from wind turbines in the WENDY survey.[65]

Social media in the wind industry

  • 375 YouTube posts about anti-wind-energy content were collected from 35 accounts between May 2024 and February 2026.[67]
  • 194 engagements per post were recorded for X anti-wind-energy content between May 2024 and February 2026.[67]
  • 760,693 Instagram likes were recorded for anti-wind-energy content between May 2024 and February 2026.[67]
  • 98 engagements per post were recorded for Facebook anti-wind-energy content between May 2024 and February 2026.[67]
  • 11,074 X posts about anti-wind-energy content were collected from 152 accounts between May 2024 and February 2026.[67]

Influencer Marketing in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across B2B companies, 28% of marketers ranked thought leaders or industry analysts as the most effective influencer type in 2025.[68]
  • Across B2B companies, 55% were using influencers in 2025, while another 29% planned to adopt influencer marketing within the following year.[68]
  • Across B2B companies, influencer marketing was associated with a 39-percentage-point advantage in brand-awareness goal attainment in 2025.[68]
  • Across B2B companies, 76% of marketing leaders believed creator collaborations build brand authenticity in 2025.[68]
  • Across B2B companies, authenticity and credibility were the top influencer-selection criteria for 58% of marketers in 2025.[68]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Reliability and maintenance data tie to failure modes and downtime, including 0.9% annual gearbox failure rate during the first four operating years.

Process optimization in the wind industry

  • 14 gearbox manufacturers were covered by EPRI’s wind-turbine reliability database used to support maintenance optimization.[19]
  • 7 major wind-turbine OEMs were represented in EPRI’s reliability database covering GE, Vestas, Siemens, Suzlon, Nordex, Mitsubishi and Gamesa.[19]
  • 1,079 U.S. land-based wind projects totaling 125 GW were included in Berkeley Lab’s 2023 performance-factor sample.[23]
  • 41% was the global weighted-average capacity factor for newly commissioned offshore wind farms in 2023.[31]
  • 38.2% was the average 2023 capacity factor for U.S. land-based wind plants built in 2022.[23]

Operational efficiency in the wind industry

  • 1.1% of U.S. wind-fleet time was classified as forced outage or unavailability in the 2013 CREW benchmark.[41]
  • 39 hours was the 2013 mean time between events for the U.S. wind fleet in the CREW database.[41]
  • 36.0% was the 2012 capacity-factor benchmark for the U.S. wind fleet in the CREW database.[41]
  • 97.6% was the 2013 operational-availability benchmark for the U.S. wind fleet in the CREW database.[41]
  • 1.3 hours was the 2013 mean downtime per event for the U.S. wind fleet in the CREW database.[41]

Quality management in the wind industry

  • 70% of gearbox failures in the cited assessment arose in bearings.[69]
  • 0.9% was the industry-average annual gearbox failure rate during the first four operating years in EPRI’s wind-turbine reliability data.[19]
  • 5% was the estimated average gearbox failure rate over a decade of wind-turbine operation in the cited reliability assessment.[69]
  • 26% of gearbox failures in the cited assessment arose in gears.[69]
  • 10.2% of reported U.S. wind-turbine insurance claims in 2012 involved generators.[69]

Supply chain in the wind industry

  • 15 GW per year was U.S. domestic nacelle-assembly capacity at the end of 2022.[41]
  • 15% of projected 2025 onshore-wind component manufacturing capacity was expected to be located in Europe.[70]
  • 5%–25% was the domestic content of blades installed in U.S. wind projects in 2022.[41]
  • 70%–85% of tower manufacturing for U.S. wind projects installed in 2022 occurred domestically.[41]
  • 8,000 parts are contained in the average U.S. utility-scale wind turbine, according to the Department of Energy.[41]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the utilities and renewable energy sector (sector benchmark)

  • Approximately 45% of electric transmission, distribution and gas distribution work was outsourced in 2024, projected to exceed 50% over the following five years.[71]
  • 88% of power and utilities executives surveyed planned to rely more on vendors and contractors than previously, in a 2025 global energy survey.[8]
  • 40% of U.S. power and utilities executives surveyed said they would outsource some business functions to external contractors, according to a 2025 survey.[8]
  • 68.4% of U.S. utilities surveyed outsourced bill printing in 2026, based on responses from 95 utilities across 18 states.[72]
  • 55% of surveyed solar OEMs, technicians and installers across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Spain outsourced most solar maintenance in 2025.[73]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Pricing and cost indicators remain grounded in per-kW and PPA metrics, including Berkeley Lab’s ~$1,070 per kW transaction price proxy for 2024.

Pricing strategy in the wind industry

  • 14.2% of Vestas Power Solutions’ 2024 revenue growth came from higher average selling prices.[56]
  • $60/MWh was the approximate LevelTen Energy wind PPA index for CAISO in the third quarter of 2022.[41]
  • $20–$40/MWh were recent U.S. wind PPA prices in western regions, while eastern prices were approximately $50/MWh in 2022.[41]
  • €89.3/MWh was the average awarded price for two 250 MW floating offshore wind projects in France in 2024.[74]
  • $33/MWh was the approximate LevelTen Energy wind PPA index for SPP and ERCOT in 2022.[41]

Cost reduction in the wind industry

  • 73% was the decline in Chinese wind turbine prices between 2010 and 2023, from $884/kW to $233/kW.[31]
  • $986/kW was China’s average total installed cost for onshore wind in 2023, the first market below $1,000/kW.[31]
  • $706–$1,040/kW was the average onshore wind turbine price range outside China in 2023.[31]
  • 76% was the decline in onshore wind full-service contract prices between 2010 and 2025, according to IRENA’s 2025 cost update.[31]
  • 41%–64% was the reduction in onshore wind turbine prices outside China between 2010 and 2023 across most regions.[31]

Profitability in the wind industry

  • €448 million was Vestas Service’s EBIT in 2024.[56]
  • 11.9% was Vestas’ gross margin in 2024, compared with 8.3% in 2023.[56]
  • DKK26.47 billion was Ørsted Offshore’s 2024 EBITDA on DKK53.808 billion of revenue.[39]
  • €494 million was Vestas’ 2024 net profit, compared with €78 million in 2023.[56]
  • €741 million was Vestas’ 2024 EBIT before special items, compared with €231 million in 2023.[56]

Financial planning in the wind industry

  • 20% is Vestas’ long-term return-on-capital-employed ambition over the cycle.[56]
  • 10% is Vestas’ long-term EBIT-margin ambition before special items.[56]
  • €1.2 billion was Vestas’ expected total investment for 2025.[56]
  • DKK33.023 billion was Ørsted Offshore’s gross investment in 2024.[39]
  • $2.1 billion was funded in 2023 for U.S. offshore wind ports, vessels, supply chains and transmission.[41]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

Turbine scaling and service coverage metrics appear alongside technology targets, including 10 MW or larger for offshore blade-development research announced in 2024.

Product development in the wind industry

  • 89% of Goldwind’s wind-turbine installations used medium-speed drivetrain technology in 2024.[40]
  • $5.1 million was planned for U.S. research and technology development on next-generation offshore wind-turbine blades in 2024.[41]
  • 10 MW or larger is the turbine scale targeted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s offshore blade-development research program announced in 2024.[41]
  • $6.25 million was offered by the U.S. Department of Energy for research on large-turbine aerodynamic performance and reliability in 2025.[41]
  • 127 GW of wind-turbine capacity was mechanically installed worldwide in 2024.[40]

Product lifecycle in the wind industry

  • 86 fewer turbines and 62 MW more capacity were typical outcomes of U.S. repowered plants compared with the original plants.[18]
  • 3,000–9,000 blades per year were expected to be retired in the United States during 2021–2026.[41]
  • 30 years was the average age of U.S. wind turbines when fully decommissioned in the study dataset.[18]
  • Approximately 30 years is the expected service life of wind turbines according to the U.S. Department of Energy.[41]
  • 2,307 blades from 12 U.S. wind projects were taken out of service because of partial repowering in 2021.[41]

After-sales in the wind industry

  • 44,000+ MW of wind-turbine capacity was under Vestas service in the United States and Canada in 2025.[75]
  • 44 was Vestas Service’s customer Net Promoter Score in its 2024 survey.[56]
  • 16,000 employees worked in Vestas’ Service business across 67 countries in 2024.[56]
  • More than 6 GW of non-Vestas turbines were covered by Vestas multibrand service offerings in 2026.[56]
  • €448 million was Vestas Service EBIT in 2024.[56]

Value proposition in the wind industry

  • 102 million homes is the estimated number that global offshore wind capacity could power, according to GWEC’s 2026 report.[40]
  • 117 GW of wind power was installed worldwide in 2024, reinforcing wind’s role as a core energy-transition technology.[40]
  • 56% was the increase in clean-energy power-purchase-agreement announcements reported by the American Clean Power Association for 2024.[76]
  • $3,500–$4,000 per kW was the estimated U.S. capital cost for offshore wind energy in 2022.[41]
  • $1,200–$1,800 per kW was the estimated U.S. capital cost for land-based wind energy in 2022.[41]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Sustainability disclosures are quantified across workforce, injury metrics, and emissions intensity, including 463 million tonnes of CO₂e expected to be avoided by turbines shipped in 2025.

Sustainability in the wind industry

  • 25% of Vestas leadership positions were held by women in 2025 globally.[56]
  • 253,000 indirect jobs were supported by Europe’s wind industry in 2026.[77]
  • 225,000 direct jobs were supported by Europe’s wind industry in 2026.[77]
  • 463 million tonnes of CO₂e are expected to be avoided over their lifetimes by turbines Vestas produced and shipped in 2025 globally.[56]
  • 20% of Vestas projects in scope had completed social due diligence in 2025 globally.[56]

ESG in the wind industry

  • 2.7 was Vestas’s total recordable injury rate in 2025 globally.[56]
  • 40:60 is Ørsted’s workforce gender-balance target for women to men.[39]
  • 83% of Vestas projects in scope had completed social due diligence in 2024 globally.[56]
  • 77% is Ørsted’s 2030 target for reducing scope-1 to scope-3 emissions from its 2018 baseline.[39]
  • More than 88 nationalities were represented among Vestas employees in 2024.[56]

Ethics in the wind industry

  • 100% of Vestas employees are expected to follow the company’s responsible-business-conduct requirements.[56]
  • 100% supplier compliance with Ørsted’s code of conduct is the company’s stated governance expectation.[39]
  • 100% of Vestas employees are covered by the company’s stated equal-employment and anti-discrimination commitment.[56]

CSR in the wind industry

  • More than 250 factories produced wind turbines and grid-connection equipment in Europe in 2025.[77]
  • 1.4 million people worked in the global wind industry workforce when GWEC reported the figure.[78]
  • 1,000-plus suppliers were included in Vestas’s U.S. supply chain in 2025.[75]
  • 5,500-plus employees worked for Vestas in the United States and Canada in 2025.[75]
  • 211,000 direct jobs were supported by Europe’s wind industry in 2025.[77]

Circular economy in the wind industry

  • 165 wind-turbine blades were recycled by Vestas in the United States in 2024.[56]
  • 188 wind-turbine blades were recycled by Vestas in the United States in 2023.[56]
  • 200,000 to 370,000 tons per year is the projected U.S. wind-blade waste range for 2050.[41]
  • Less than 50,000 tons of wind-blade waste went to U.S. landfills in 2018.[41]
  • 55% is Vestas’s target for refurbished-component utilisation by 2030.[56]

Carbon footprint in the wind industry

  • 146 GW of wind power had been installed globally by Siemens Gamesa when reported.[49]
  • 300 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions were reduced annually by Siemens Gamesa’s installed wind-power base when reported.[49]
  • 98% was Ørsted’s 2025-equivalent reduction in scope-1 and scope-2 emissions from its 2006 baseline.[39]
  • 6.39 kg CO₂e per MWh generated was Vestas’s scope-3 emissions intensity in 2025.[56]
  • 45% is Vestas’s 2030 target for reducing supply-chain scope-3 emissions per MWh generated from its 2022 baseline.[56]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Global capacity totals and supply-chain reach are quantified, including 1,346,866 MW installed globally by the end of 2025.

Globalization in the wind industry

  • 1,346,866 MW of wind capacity was installed globally by the end of 2025.[88]
  • 3.2 GW of new wind capacity was installed in Germany in 2024.[26]
  • 5.4 GW of new wind capacity was installed in Brazil in 2024.[26]
  • 4.2 GW of new wind capacity was installed in the United States in 2024.[26]
  • 34.9 GW of annual wind installations occurred outside China in 2024.[31]

Cultural adaptation in the wind industry

  • 2,338 Siemens Gamesa employees were based in India in 2024.[89]
  • 5,992 Siemens Gamesa employees were based in Denmark in 2024.[89]
  • 768 Siemens Gamesa employees were based in China in 2024.[89]
  • 3,462 Siemens Gamesa employees were based in Germany in 2024.[89]
  • 3% of Siemens Gamesa employees worked part-time in 2024.[89]

Supplier management in the wind industry

  • 9.2 GW was the global offshore-wind market size in 2025, up from 1.6 GW in 2013.[90]
  • 76% was the increase in GE Vernova onshore wind repowering orders in 2024 compared with 2023.[91]
  • 448 MW was the capacity of the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project completed in 2025.[90]
  • 1.2 GW was the capacity of Dogger Bank Phase A when 66 Haliade-X turbines were connected in 2025.[90]
  • More than 100 countries supplied materials and components to GE Vernova in 2024.[91]

Stakeholder management in the wind industry

  • 19 countries and markets had installed offshore wind capacity by the end of 2025.[92]
  • 2-to-1 was the ratio by which California voters supported offshore turbines visible from the beach in a 2023 poll.[93]
  • 462 square kilometers is the area covered by the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm.[92]
  • 48.4 GW was China’s offshore wind capacity at the end of 2025.[92]
  • 84% is the potential reduction in Europe’s onshore-wind role by 2050 under lower local acceptance, according to a 2026 study.[1]

Distribution channels in the wind industry

  • €725 million of Vestas’ 2024 revenue came from transactional service sales.[42]
  • €2.972 billion of Vestas’ 2024 revenue came from service contracts recognized over time.[42]
  • €3.456 billion of Vestas’ 2024 revenue came from the United States.[42]
  • €8.053 billion, or 46% of Vestas’ revenue, came from EMEA in 2024.[42]
  • €3.374 billion of Vestas’ 2024 revenue came from supply-only contracts.[42]

Key questions about the wind industry

What is the scale of new global wind capacity?
Wind power reached a record 165 GW of new global capacity in 2025.
How fast is the market expected to grow for installations after 2025?
Forecast installation CAGR for 2026–2030 is 5.2%. IEA projections also put annual installations at 211.8 GW by 2030.
Which companies lead the wind industry?
GE Vernova leads Gitnux's 2026 wind ranking with an Overall score of 9.4, with ~55,000 installed wind turbines in its base. Envision Energy is the highest-ranked wind farm systems provider at 9.0, driven by 20+ GW of 2025 installations reported.
What technology shifts are showing measurable impact in operations and maintenance?
Automated inspection and predictive analytics report measurable gains: 68% deviation reduction (2024 UAV trajectory) and 14.0% lower annual maintenance cost (AI-enabled predictive analytics).
How concentrated is turbine supply by manufacturers?
Chinese manufacturers held five leading global turbine-supplier positions by installed capacity in 2025: Goldwind 29.7 GW, Envision 21.8 GW, Windey 19.8 GW, Mingyang 18.6 GW, and SANY 15.1 GW.
What are the main execution constraints affecting commissioning throughput?
Growth faces grid constraints, permitting delays, financing costs and curtailment. The IEA also reported renewable additions reached 800 GW in 2025 despite grid-connection delays.
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