Ewea annual-statistics-2014

1THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
Wind in power
2014 European statistics
February 2015

2
WIND IN POWER: 2014 EUROPEAN STATISTICS
THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
Contents
Executive summary ............................................................................... 3
2014 annual installations ....................................................................... 5
Wind power capacity installations .................................................. 5
Power capacity installations .......................................................... 6
Renewable power capacity installations ......................................... 7
Trends and cumulative installations ......................................................... 7
Renewable power installations ...................................................... 7
Net changes in EU installed power capacity 2000-2014 .................. 8
Total installed power capacity ........................................................ 8
A closer look at wind power installations ................................................. 9
Total installed power capacity ........................................................ 9
National breakdown of wind power installations .............................. 10
Onshore and offshore annual markets ........................................... 10
Cumulative wind power installations .............................................. 11
Wind power penetration.......................................................................... 12
Data collection and analysis
Giorgio Corbetta, European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)
Contributing authors
Iván Pineda (EWEA)
Justin Wilkes (EWEA)
Data sources
Platts PowerVision, January 2015
EWEA, wind energy data
EU-OEA, ocean energy data
EPIA, solar PV data
ESTELA, CSP data
Special thanks to:
IGWindkraft (AT) – BOP, EDORA and VWEA (BE) - APEE and BGWEA (BG) - Suisse Eole (CH) - CSVE (CZ) – BWE, VDMA and Stiftung
Offshore Windenergie (DE) – DWIA (DK) – Tuulenergia (EE) – HWEA (EL) – AEE and APPA (ES) - Suomen Tuulivoimayhdistys ry (FI)
– France Énergie Éolienne and Syndicat des Énergies Renouvelables (FR) – SEV (FO) – Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar (HR) – HWEA
and HWIA (HU) – Landsvirkjun (IS) – IWEA (IE) – ANEV (IT) – LWPA (LT) – Ministry of Economics (LU) – NWEA (NL) – NorWEA (NO) –
University of Maribor (SI) – TÜREB (TK) – PWEA (PL) - APREN (PT) – RWEA (RO) –RAWI (RS) – Svenskvindenergi (SE) – Continental
Wind Partners (SRB) – UWEA (UA) – RenewableUK (UK).
Design: Clara Ros (EWEA)
Photo cover: ThinkStock

• 11,791.4 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13.1bn and €18.7bn)
was installed in the EU during 2014, an increase of 3.8% compared to 2013
annual installations.
• Wind power is the generating technology with the highest rate for new installa-
tions in 2014, accounting for 43.7% of total 2014 power capacity installations,
12 percentage points higher than during the previous year.
• Renewable power installations accounted for 79.1% of new installations during
2014: 21.3 GW of a total 26.9 GW of new power capacity, up from 72% the
previous year.
•There is now 128.8 GW of installed wind power capacity in the EU: approxi-
mately 120.6 GW onshore and just over 8 GW offshore.
• The EU total installed power capacity increased by 14.8 GW net in 2014 to
910.1 GW, with wind power increasing by 11.4 GW net and reaching a share of
total installed generation capacity of 14.1%.
• Since 2000, 29.4% of new capacity installed has been wind power, 56.2%
renewables and 91.1% renewables and gas combined.
• The EU power sector continues its move away from fuel oil and coal with both
technologies continuing to decommission more than they install.
• Annual installations of wind power have increased over the last 14 years,
from 3.2 GW in 2000, to 11.8 GW in 2014 at a compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) of 9.8%.
• A total of 128.8 GW is now installed in the European Union, an increase in
installed cumulative capacity of 9.7% compared to the previous year.
• Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed capacity followed by
Spain, the UK and France. There are 15 EU countries with gigawatt-level wind
power capacities installed, including two relatively new EU countries (Poland
and Romania), and eight EU countries each have more than 4 GW of installed
capacity.
• 59.5% of all new installations in 2014 were in just two countries (Germany
and the UK), an increased concentration compared to 2013 (46% of total
installations). 77.2% of all new installations were concentrated in the top four
countries (Germany, the UK, Sweden and France).
• 2014 shows the negative impact of market, regulatory and political uncertainty
sweeping across Europe. Destabilised legislative frameworks for wind energy
are undermining investments.
• A number of previously large markets such as Denmark, Spain and Italy saw
their rates of wind energy installations decrease significantly in 2014, by
90.4%, 84.3% and 75.4% respectively.
• Offshore wind saw almost 1.5 GW installed in 2014, 5.3% less than 2013.
• The wind power capacity installed by the end of 2014 would, in a normal wind
year, produce 284 TWh of electricity, enough to cover 10.2% (of which 1%
from offshore wind) of the EU’s electricity consumption – up from 8% the year
before.
Executive summary
2014
annual
installations
Trends and
cumulative
installations
Wind
power
installations

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PORTUGAL*
4,914.4
SPAIN
22,986.5
FRANCE
9,285
UNITED
KINGDOM
12,440.3
IRELAND
2,271.7
BELGIUM
1,959
NETHERLANDS
2,805
LUXEMBOURG
58.3
GERMANY
39,165
POLAND
3,833.8
DENMARK
4,845
SWEDEN
5,424..8
FINLAND
627
ESTONIA
302.7
LATVIA 61.8
LITHUANIA
279.3
BELARUS 3.4
ITALY
8,662.9
AUSTRIA
2,095
CZECH
REPUBLIC
281.5 SLOVAKIA 3.1
HUNGARY
329.2
SLOVENIA
3.2
ROMANIA
2,953.6
SERBIA
0 BULGARIA
690.5
GREECE
1,979.8
MALTA
0
RUSSIA
15.4
NORWAY
819.3
UKRAINE
497.5
SWITZERLAND
60.3
CROATIA
346.5
TURKEY
3,762.5
CYPRUS
146.7
FAROE ISLANDS*
18.3
* Provisional data
** Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Note: due to previous year adjustments, 423.5 MW of project decommissioning, repowering and
rounding of figures, the total 2014 end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent to
the sum of the 2013 end-of-year total plus the 2014 additions.
Installed 2013 End 2013 Installed 2014 End 2014
Candidate Countries (MW)
FYROM - - 37 37
Serbia - - - -
Turkey 646.3 2,958.5 804 3,762.5
Total 646.3 2,958.5 841 3,799.5
EFTA (MW)
Iceland 1.8 1.8 1.2 3
Liechtenstein - - - -
Norway 110 771.3 48 819.3
Switzerland 13.3 60.3 - 60.3
Total 125.1 833.4 49.2 882.6
Other (MW)
Belarus - 3.4 - 3.4
Faroe Islands 4.5 6.6 11.7 18.3
Russia - 15.4 - 15.4
Ukraine 95.3 371.2 126.3 497.5
Total 99.8 396.7 138.0 534.7
Total Europe 12,228.5 121,572.2 12,819.6 133,968.2
Installed
2013 End 2013 Installed
2014
End
2014
EU Capacity (MW)
Austria 308.4 1,683.8 411.2 2,095
Belgium 275.6 1,665.5 293.5 1,959
Bulgaria 7.1 681,1 9.4 690.5
Croatia 81.2 260.8 85.7 346.5
Cyprus - 146.7 - 146.7
Czech Republic 8 268.1 14 281.5
Denmark 694.5 4,807 67 4,845
Estonia 10.5 279.9 22.8 302.7
Finland 163.3 449 184 627
France 630 8,243 1,042 9,285
Germany 3,238,4 34,250.2 5,279,2 39,165
Greece 116.2 1,865,9 113.9 1,979.8
Hungary - 329.2 - 329,2
Ireland 343.6 2,049.3 222.4 2,271.7
Italy 437.7 8,557.9 107.5 8,662.9
Latvia 2.2 61.8 - 61.8
Lithuania 16.2 278.8 0.5 279.3
Luxembourg - 58.3 - 58.3
Malta - - - -
Netherlands 295 2,671 141 2,805
Poland 893.5 3,389.5 444.3 3,833.8
Portugal* 200 4,730.4 184 4,914.4
Romania 694.6 2,599.6 354 2,953.6
Slovakia - 3.1 - 3.1
Slovenia 2.3 2.3 0.9 3.2
Spain 175.1 22,959.1 27.5 22,986.5
Sweden 689 4,381.6 1,050.2 5,424.8
UK 2,075 10,710.9 1,736.4 12,440.3
Total EU-28 11,357.3 117,383.6 11,791.4 128,751.4
Wind power installed in Europe by end of
2014 (cumulative)
European Union: 128,751.4 MW
Candidate Countries: 3,799.5 MW
EFTA: 882.6 MW
Total Europe: 133,968.2 MW
FYROM**
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2014 annual installations
Wind power capacity installations
During 2014, 12,819.6 MW of wind power was
installed across Europe, of which 11,791.4 MW was
in the European Union.
Of the capacity installed in the EU, 10,308.1 MW
was onshore and 1,483.3 MW offshore. In 2014,
the annual onshore market increased in the EU by
5.3%, and offshore installations decreased by 5.3%
compared to 2013. Overall, EU wind energy annual
installations increased by 3.8% compared to 2013
installations.
Investment in EU wind farms was between €13.1bn
and €18.7bn. Onshore wind farms attracted around
€8.9bn to €12.8bn, while offshore wind farms
accounted for €4.2bn to €5.9bn.
In terms of annual installations, Germany was the
largest market in 2014, installing 5,279.2 MW of new
capacity, 528.9 MW of which (10% of total capacity
installed in Germany) offshore. The UK came in
second with 1,736.4 MW, 813.4 MW of which (46.8%)
offshore, followed by Sweden with 1,050.2 MW and
France with 1,042 MW. The next countries are signifi-
cantly behind: Poland with 444.3 MW and Austria with
411.2 MW.
The emerging markets of Central and Eastern EU
installed 838 MW, 7.1% of total installations. In 2014,
these countries represented a smaller share of the
total EU market than in 2013 (16%). That is due to
retroactive legislative changes in Romania and uncer-
tainty on the impact of the Renewable Energy Sources
Act on the support system and renewable energy
market in Poland.
Moreover, 59.5% of all new EU installations in 2014
were in just two countries, Germany and the United
Kingdom, a similar trend to the one seen in 2013.
A number of previously large markets such as
Denmark, Spain and Italy have seen their rate of wind
energy installations decrease significantly in 2014, by
90.4%, 84.3% and 75.4% respectively.
Offshore accounted for 12.6% of total EU wind power
installations in 2014, confirming the high level of
concentration in annual installations during 2014.
FIGURE 1: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR NEW WIND
ENERGY CAPACITY INSTALLED DURING 2014 (MW).
TOTAL 11,791.4 MW
Spain, 27.5 0.2%
Estonia, 22.8 0.2%
Czech Republic, 14 0.1%
Bulgaria, 9.4 0.1%
Slovenia, 0.9 0.01%
Lithuania, 0.5 0.004%
Germany
5,279.2
44.8%
UK
1,736.4
14.7%
Sweden
1,050.2
8.9%
France
1,042
8.8%
Poland, 444.3 3.8%
Austria, 411.2 3.5%
Romania, 354 3%
Belgium, 293.5 2.5%
Ireland, 222.4 1.9%
Finland, 184 1.6%
Portugal, 184 1.6%
Netherlands, 141 1.2%
Greece, 113.9 1%
Italy, 107.5 0.9%
Croatia, 85.7 0.7%
Denmark, 67 0.6%

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Power capacity installations
Overall, during 2014, 26.9 GW of new power gener-
ating capacity was installed in the EU, 9.4 GW less
than in 2013.
Wind power was the energy technology with the highest
installation rate in 2014: 11.8 GW, accounting for
43.7% of all new installations. Solar PV came second
with 8 GW (29.7% of 2014 installations) and coal third
with 3.3 GW (12.3%).
No other technologies compare to wind and solar PV in
terms of new installations. Gas installed 2.3 GW (8.7%
of total installations), biomass 990 MW (3.7%), hydro
436 MW (1.6%), waste 68 MW (0.3%), geothermal 45
MW and ocean 1.3 MW. CSP, fuel oil, nuclear and peat
did not install any generating capacity in 2014.
During 2014, 7.2 GW of coal capacity was decommis-
sioned, as was 2.9 GW of gas, 1.1 GW of fuel oil,
423.5 MW of wind energy, 370 MW of biomass and
14.9 MW of hydro capacity1
.
FIGURE 3: NEW INSTALLED CAPACITY AND DECOMMISSIONED CAPACITY (MW)
FIGURE 2: SHARE OF NEW POWER CAPACITY INSTALLATIONS IN
EU (MW). TOTAL 26,975.5 MW
Wind
11,791.4
43.7%
PV
8,000
29.7%
Biomass
990
3.7%
Hydro
436
1.6%
Waste
68
0.3%
Geothermal
45
0.2%
Ocean
1.3
0.005%
Coal
3,305
12.3%
Gas
2,338.9
8.7%
Source: Platts PowerVision 2015, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA, OEA
11,791.4
8,000
3,305
2,338.9
990
436 68 45 1.3 - - - -
(423.5)
-
(7,256.6)
(2,962)
(370) (14.9)
- - - -
(1,122)
- -
-10,000
-5,000
5,000
10,000
15,000
PVWind Gas Coal Biomass Hydro Waste Nuclear PeatCSP Fuel oilOceanGeo-
thermal
New Decommissioned
1
Figures for PV decommissioning are not available

FIGURE 5: INSTALLED POWER GENERATING CAPACITY PER YEAR (MW) AND RENEWABLE SHARE (%)
In 2000, new renewable power capacity installations
totalled a mere 3.6 GW. Since 2010, annual renewable
capacity additions have been between 24.7 GW and
34.6 GW, eight to ten times higher than in 2000.
The share of renewables in total new power capacity
additions has also grown. In 2000, the 3.6 GW
Renewable power capacity installations
Trends cumulative installations
represented 22.4% of new power capacity installations,
increasing to 21.3 GW representing 79.1% in 2014.
412.7 GW of new power capacity has been installed
in the EU since 2000. Of this, 29.4% has been wind
power, 56.2% renewables and 91.1% renewables and
gas combined.
In 2014, a total of 21.3 GW of renewable power
capacity was installed. 79.1% of all new installed
capacity in the EU was renewable. It was, furthermore,
the seventh year running, that over 55% of all addi-
tional power capacity in the EU was renewable.
Renewable power capacity installations
FIGURE 4: 2014 SHARE OF NEW RENEWABLE POWER CAPACITY
INSTALLATIONS (MW). TOTAL 21,331.6 MW4
Biomass
990
4.6%
Hydro
436
2%
Waste
68
0.3%
Geothermal
45
0.2%
Ocean
1.3
0.006%
Wind
11,791
55.3%
PV
8,000
37.5%
79.1%RES
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Peat Fuel oil
Nuclear Coal
Gas
CSP
Waste
Biomass
Ocean
Geothermal
Hydro PV
Wind

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Total installed power capacity
Wind power’s share of total installed power capacity
has increased five-fold since 2000; from 2.4% in 2000
to 14.1% in 2014. Over the same period, renewable
FIGURE 7: EU POWER MIX 2000 (MW) FIGURE 8: EU POWER MIX 2014 (MW)
FIGURE 6: NET ELECTRICITY GENERATING INSTALLATIONS IN THE EU 2000-2014 (MW)
The net growth since 2000 of wind power (116.8 GW),
gas (101.3 GW) and solar PV (87.9 GW) was at the
expense of fuel oil (down 25.3 GW), coal (down 24.7
GW) and nuclear (down 13.2 GW). The other renewable
technologies (biomass, hydro, waste, CSP, geothermal
and ocean energies) have also been increasing their
installed capacity over the past decade, albeit more
slowly than wind and solar PV.
Net changes in EU installed power capacity 2000-2014
The EU’s power sector continues to move away from
fuel oil, coal, nuclear and gas while increasing its total
installed generating capacity with wind and solar PV.
In 2014 gas decommissioned more MW than what it
installed but still has the most overall built capacity.
8 THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
116,759.6
101,276.8
87,926
7,777.9 6,964.9
2,309 2,196.4
250.1 143.2 14.28
(13,190)
(24,745.7) (25,293.8)
-35,000
-15,000
5,000
0
25,000
45,000
65,000
85,000
105,000
125,000
GasWind PV Biomass Hydro WasteCSP Peat Ocean CoalNuclear Fuel oilGeo-
thermal
Coal
132,584.1
24.3%
Nuclear
122,966.3
22.6%
Hydro
112,918.9
20.7%
Gas
92,941.8
17.1%
Fuel Oil, 61,705.7 11.3%
Wind, 12,887 2.4%
Biomass, 4,578.2 0.8%
Waste, 2,123 0.4%
Peat, 1,667.3 0.3% Geothermal, 591.6 0.1%
PV, 125 0.02%
Gas
200,442.4
22.%
Coal
164,390.2
18.1%
Hydro
140,686.3
15.5%
Wind
128,751.4
14.1%
Nuclear
122,328.3
13.4%
PV, 88,000 9.7%
Fuel Oil, 43,765 4.8%
Biomass, 12,282.4 1.3%
Waste, 4,253.6 0.5%
CSP, 2,314 0.3% Peat, 1,807.6 0.2%
Geothermal, 810 0.1%
Ocean, 262.9 0.03%
capacity increased from 24.4% of total power capacity
in 2000 to 41.5% in 2014.

Total installed power capacity
Annual wind power installations in the EU have
increased steadily over the past 14 years from 3.2 GW
in 2000 to 11.8 GW in 2014, a CAGR of 9.8%.
A closer look at wind power installations
FIGURE 9: ANNUAL WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN EU (GW)
3.21
4.43
5.91
5.46
5.84
6.54
7.18
8.97
8.48
10.27
9.85 9.66
12.06
11.16
11.79
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION10 THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
National breakdown of wind power installations
In 2000, the annual wind power installations of the
three pioneering countries – Denmark, Germany and
Spain – represented 85% of all EU wind capacity. By
2013, they represented only 36.2% of total installa-
tions. In 2014 installations in the three pioneering
countries together represented 45.6% of the EU
market and were mainly driven by the 63% German
market growth.
Moreover, in 2000, the countries that make up the 132
newer EU Member States had no wind energy, while
in 2014 they reached 7.9% of the EU’s total market.
However, 85.7% of those installations were in just two
countries: Poland and Romania.
This indicates that the policy instability facing renew-
ables in numerous countries in the EU is leading to an
increased concentration of wind energy installation in
a handful of countries with stable frameworks.
FIGURE 10: SHARE OF EU WIND POWER MARKET, PIONEERING COUNTRIES, NEWER MEMBER STATES, AND THE REST OF EU (GW)
2000 2005 2010 2012 2013 2014
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2.7
3.6
3.4 3.7
4.1
5.4
0.5
2.8
5.0
6.1
5.5
5.5
0 0.1
1.5 2.2 1.7 0.9
Pioneers Other EU MS Newer Member States
2
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.

Cumulative wind power installations
A total of 128.8 GW is now installed in the European
Union, a growth of 9.8% on the previous year and
lower than the record growth registered in 2012 (+12%
compared to 2011). Germany remains the EU country
with the largest installed capacity, followed by Spain,
the UK, France and Italy. Ten other EU countries have
over 1 GW of installed capacity: Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Romania and Sweden.
Three of the latter (Denmark, Portugal and Sweden),
have more than 4 GW of installed wind energy capacity.
Onshore and offshore annual markets
Offshore wind installations in 2014 were 5.3% less than in 2013, with 1,483.3 MW of new capacity grid
connected. Offshore wind power installations represent 12.6% of the annual EU wind energy market, down from
14% in 2013.
FIGURE 11: ANNUAL ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS (MW)
4,377
5,743
5,186
5,749
6,454
7,097
8,632
8,109
9,704
9,030 8,920
10,665
9,592
10,308
51
170
276
90
90
93
318
373
575
883 874
1,166
1,567
1,483
1,000
3,000
5,000
7,000
9,000
11,000
13,000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Onshore Offshore
FIGURE 12: CUMULATIVE WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN THE EU (GW)
12.9
17.3 23.1
28.5
34.4
40.8 48
56.7
65.1
75.3
85.1
94.5
106.2
117.3
128.8
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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FIGURE 13: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR TOTAL INSTALLED CAPACITY (GW). TOTAL 128.8 GW
Germany (39.2 GW) and Spain (23 GW) have the largest
cumulative installed wind energy capacity in Europe.
Together they represent 48.3% of total EU capacity. The
UK, France and Italy follow with, respectively, 12.4 GW
(9.7% of total EU capacity), 9.3 GW (7.2%) and 8.7 GW
(6.7%). Amongst the newer Member States, Poland, with
3.8 GW (3% of cumulative capacity), is now in the top 10,
in front of Romania (3 GW, 2.3%), and the Netherlands
is eleventh with 2.8 GW (2.2%).
Source: EWEA
Germany
39.2
30.4%
Spain
23
17.9%UK
12.4
9.7%
France, 9.3 7.2%
Italy, 8.7 6.7%
Sweden, 5.4 4.2%
Portugal, 4.9 3.8%
Denmark, 4.8 3.8%
Poland, 3.8 3%
Romania, 3 2.3%
Netherlands, 2.8 2.2%
Ireland, 2.3 1.8%
Austria, 2.1 1.6%
Greece, 2 1.5%
Belgium, 2 1.5%
Bulgaria, 0.7 0.5%
Finland, 0.6 0.5%
Croatia, 0.3 0.3%
Hungary, 0.3 0.3%
Estonia, 0.3 0.2%
Czech Republic, 0.3 0.2%
Lithuania, 0.3 0.2%
Cyprus, 0.1 0.1%
Latvia, 0.1 0.05%
Luxembourg, 0.1 0.05%
The wind energy capacity currently installed in the EU
would produce in an average wind year 284 TWh of
electricity, enough to cover 10.2% of the EU’s total
electricity consumption3
.
3
Wind energy penetration levels are calculated using average capacity factors onshore and offshore and Eurostat electricity con-
sumption figures (2012). Consequently, table 1 indicates the approximate share of consumption met by the installed wind energy
capacity at the end of 2014.The figure does not represent real wind energy production over a calendar year.The most recent data
(2012) for EU 28 final energy consumption of electricity from Eurostat, is 2,798 TWh. Eurostat, online table code [nrg_105a],
extracted on 21 January 2015.
Wind power penetration
Total EU
electricity
consumption
(TWh)
Onshore wind
energy production
(TWh)
Offshore wind
energy production
(TWh)
Share of EU
consumption met
by onshore wind
(TWh)
Share of EU
consumption met
by offshore wind
Share of EU
consumption met
by wind
2,798 254.43 29.59 9.1% 1.1% 10.2%

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