The new year has just begun and with that comes figures over last year’s development in wind energy. A cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council and renewable energy software company Breeze has resulted in The Evolution of Wind Power – an interactive map showing the cumulative installed wind power capacity per country, continent and the world as a whole between 1981-2014. It is safe to say a lot has happened in wind power in the last twelve months.
A newcomer this year is Peru that went from just 2 MW to 148 MW in 2014.
Uruguay is up from 59 MW a year ago to an impressive 464 MW as of the end of 2014.
With a 24% increase to 5425 MW Sweden now for the first time has a higher wind power capacity than wind energy veteran and neighbor country Denmark.
Other nations that experienced significant growth in wind power last year was Morocco up 62% to 787 MW, Pakistan up 141% to 256 MW, Turkey up 27% to 3763 MW, Brazil up 71% to 5939 MW and Chile up 153% to 836 MW.
China accounted for the largest growth in terms of number of MW last year with a record breaking 23351 MW in one year. The world leading wind energy nation now has 114 763 MW of wind power capacity installed, far surpassing any other single country.
Some established players in wind energy such as Spain, Italy and Denmark experienced low or no growth at all last year.
Link to The Evolution of Wind Power: http://www.breezesystem.com/resources/evolution-of-wind-power/
