- There are now 117.3 GW of installed wind energy capacity in the EU: 110.7 GW onshore and 6.6 GW offshore. - 11,159 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13 bn and €18 bn) was installed in the EU-28 during 2013, a decrease of 8% compared to 2012 installations. - The EU power sector continues its move away from fuel oil and coal with each technology continuing to decommission more than it installs. - The wind power capacity installed by the end of 2013 would, in a normal wind year, produce 257 TWh of electricity, enough to cover 8% of the EU's electricity consumption - up from 7% the year before.

1. Wind in power
European wind energy statistics 2013

2. 2013 annual installations
• 11,159 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13 bn and
€18 bn) was installed in the EU-28 during 2013, a decrease of 8%
compared to 2012 installations.
• EU wind power installations for 2013 show the negative impact of
market, regulatory and political uncertainty sweeping across
Europe. Destabilised legislative frameworks for wind energy are
undermining investments.
• Wind power is the technology which installed the most in 2013:
32% of total 2013 power capacity installations - five percentage
points higher than during the previous year.
• Renewable power installations accounted for 72% of new
installations during 2013: 25 GW of a total 35 GW of new power
capacity, up from 70% the previous year.

3. Wind power installed in Europe by end of 2013
(cumulative, MW)
FINLAND
448
NORWAY
768
ESTONIA
280
SWEDEN
4,470
LATVIA
62
FAROE ISLANDS*
4
DENMARK
4,772
IRELAND
2,037
UNITED
KINGDOM
10,531
European Union:
117,289
MW Candidate countries: 2,956
MW
EFTA:
830 MW
Total Europe:
121,474
MW
LITHUANIA
225
BELARUS
3
NETHERLANDS
2,693
BELGIUM
1,375
UKRAINE
371
GERMANY
34,250
LUXEMBOURG
44
FRANCE
8,254
POLAND
3,390
SWITZERLAND
60
CZECH
REPUBLIC
SLOVAKIA
269
3
AUSTRIA
HUNGARY*
1,684
329
SLOVENIA
2
CROATIA
302
ROMANIA
2,599
BULGARIA
681
ITALY
8,551
PORTUGAL
4,724
RUSSIA*
15
FYROM
0
SPAIN
22,956
TURKEY
2,956
GREECE
1,865
MALTA
0
CYPRUS
147

4. Wind power installed in EU by end of 2013
(cumulative, MW)
* Provisional data or estimate.
** Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Note: due to previous year adjustments, 372 MW of project de-commissioning, re-powering and rounding of figures, the total 2013
end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent to the sum of the 2012 end-of-year total plus the 2013 additions.

5. EU Member State Market shares for new capacity
installed during 2013 in MW. Total 11,159 MW
Italy
444
4%
Austria
308
3%
Ireland
288
3%
France
631
6%
Germany
3,238
29%
Denmark
657
6%
Romania
695
6%
Sweden
724
6%
UK
1,883
17%
Poland
894
8%
Others
1,395
12%
Source: EWEA

6. Share of new power capacity installations in EU
(total 35,181 MW)
Coal
1,900
5%
Fuel Oil
220
0.6%
Gas
7,491
22%
Wind
11,159
32%
Ocean
1
0%
Geothermal
10
0%
Waste
180
1%
CSP
419
1%
Hydro
1,216
3%
Biomass
1,455
4%
PV
11,010
31%
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

7. New installed power capacity and
decommissioned power capacity in MW
New
Decommissioned
15000
11,159
11,010
10000
7,491
5000
1,900
1,455
0
-324
-750
1,216
419 0
220
-19
180
120 0
10 0
1 0
-80
-2,792
5000
-7,723
10000
-10,146
15000
Wind
PV
Gas
Coal
Bio
mass
Hydro CSP
Fuel oil Waste Nuclea Geothe
r
rmal
Ocean
Sources: Platts PowerVision

8. 2013 share of new renewable power capacity
installations in MW (total 25,208 MW)
Waste
180
1%
CSP
419
1%
Geothermal
10
0%
Ocean
1
0%
Hydro
1,216
5%
Biomass
1,455
6%
Wind
11,159
44%
PV
11,010
43%
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

9. Trends & cumulative installations
• There are now 117.3 GW of installed wind energy capacity in the
EU: 110.7 GW onshore and 6.6 GW offshore.
• The EU’s total installed power capacity increased by 13 GW net
to 900 GW, with wind power increasing by 11.2 GW and reaching
a share of total installed generation capacity of 13%, up one
percentage point compared to the previous year.
• Since 2000, over 28% of new capacity installed has been wind
power, 55% renewables and 92% renewables and gas combined.
• The EU power sector continues its move away from fuel oil and
coal with each technology continuing to decommission more than
it installs.

10. Installed power generating capacity per year in
MW and RES share (%)
60000
50000
40000
30000
72% RES
20000
10000
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
10000
Peat
Ocean
BIOMASS
Fuel Oil
Geothermal
Photovoltaic
Nuclear
CSP
Wind
Coal
Waste
Gas
Hydro
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

11. Net electricity generating installations
in EU 2000-2013 (GW)
140
120
105
103
100
80
80
60
40
20
7
7
2
2
0
0
0
0
-13
-20
--19
-24
-40
Wind
Ga
s
PV
Biomass
Hydro
CSP Waste
Geothermal
Peat
Ocean Nuclear
Coal Fuel
oil
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

12. EU power capacity mix
2013
2000
Fuel Oil
62,166
11%
Hydro
112,719
21%
Wind
12,887
2%
Fuel Oil,
47,528
5%
Biomass
4,568
1%
Nuclear
122,328
14%
Waste
2,199
0%
Gas
91,922
17%
Wind
117,288
13%
Geothermal
592
0%
Peat
1,667
0%
Hydro
140,054
16%
PV
80,000
9%
Coal
171,405
19%
Biomass,
11,288, 1%
Waste
4,219
1%
CSP, 0, 0%
PV, 125, 0%
Nuclear
122,966
23%
Coal
133,220
25%
Ocean
248
0%
Gas
201,000
22%
Ocean
262
0%
Geothermal Peat
765
1,808
0%
0%
CSP
2,309
0%
Sources: Platts PowerVision
2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

13. Wind power installations
• Annual installations of wind power have increased over the last
13 years, from 3.2 GW in 2000 to 11.2 GW in 2013, a compound
annual growth rate of 10%.
• A total of 117.3 GW is now installed in the European Union, an
increase in installed cumulative capacity of 10% compared to the
previous year.
• Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed
capacity followed by Spain, the UK and Italy. Fifteen EU countries
have more than 1 GW of installed capacity, including two newer
EU countries (Poland and Romania), and eight EU countries have
more than 4 GW of installed capacity.

14. Wind power installations (continued)
• The volatility across Europe has contributed to 46% of all new
installations in 2013 being in just two countries (Germany and the
UK), a significant concentration compared to the trend of previous
years whereby installations were increasingly spread across
healthy European Markets. This is a level of concentration that
has not been seen in the EU’s wind power market since 2007
when the three wind energy pioneering countries
(Denmark, Germany and Spain) together represented 58% of all
new installations that year.
• A number of previously healthy markets such as Spain, Italy and
France have seen their rate of wind energy installations decrease
significantly in 2013, by 84%, 65% and 24% respectively.
• Offshore saw a record growth in 2013 (+1.6 GW); the outlook for
2014 and 2015 is stable, but not growing.
• The wind power capacity installed by the end of 2013 would, in a
normal wind year, produce 257 TWh of electricity, enough to
cover 8% of the EU’s electricity consumption – up from 7% the

15. Annual wind power installations in EU (GW)
Source: EWEA

16. Share of EU wind power market, pioneering
countries, Newer Member States, and rest of EU
(GW)
Source: EWEA

17. Annual onshore and offshore installations (MW)
13000
1,166
11000
10,937
1,567
575
318
8,632
883
874
9,030
9,704
9000
8,920
2010
2011
373
9,592
8,109
7000
170
5,743
5000
90
6,454
276
93
7,097
90
5,749
5,186
51
4,377
3000
1000
2001
-1000
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Offshore
2008
2009
2012
2013
onshore
Source: EWEA

18. Cumulative wind power installations in the EU
(GW)
117.3
120
106.4
100
94.5
85
75.3
80
65
56.7
60
48
40.8
40
34.4
28.5
23
20
17.3
12.9
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Source: EWEA

19. EU Member State market shares for total installed
capacity (total 118 GW)
Netherlands,
3
2%
Other
13
11%
Poland
3
3%
Germany
34
29%
Sweden
4
4%
Portugal
5
4%
Denmark,
5
4%
France
8
7%
Italy
9
7%
Spain
23
20%
UK
11
9%
Source: EWEA

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