Wind in powerEuropean wind energy statistics 2013

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.

Wind power installed in Europe by end of 2013 (cumulative, MW)

IRELAND2,037 UNITED

KINGDOM10,531

NETHERLANDS2,693

GERMANY34,250

BELGIUM1,375

FRANCE8,254

SPAIN22,956

LUXEMBOURG44

CZECHREPUBLIC

269

NORWAY768

SWEDEN4,470

FINLAND448

POLAND3,390

AUSTRIA1,684SWITZERLAND

60

ITALY8,551

SLOVENIA2CROATIA

302

HUNGARY*329

SLOVAKIA3

FYROM0

ROMANIA2,599

BULGARIA681

GREECE1,865

UKRAINE371

LITHUANIA225

LATVIA62

ESTONIA280

TURKEY2,956

FAROE ISLANDS*4

PORTUGAL4,724

CYPRUS147

MALTA0

European Union: 117,289 MW Candidate countries: 2,956 MWEFTA: 830 MWTotal Europe: 121,474 MW

DENMARK4,772

RUSSIA*15

BELARUS3

Wind power installed in EU by end of 2013 (cumulative, MW)

* Provisional data or estimate. ** Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaNote: 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.

Germany3,23829%

UK1,88317%

Others1,39512%

Poland8948%

Sweden7246%

Romania6956%

Denmark6576%

France6316%

Italy4444%

Austria308 3%

Ireland2883%

EU Member State Market shares for new capacity installed during 2013 in MW. Total 11,159 MW

Source: EWEA

Share of new power capacity installations in EU (total 35,181 MW)

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

Wind11,15932%

PV11,01031%

Biomass1,4554%

Hydro1,2163%

CSP4191%

Waste1801%

Geothermal100%

Ocean1

0%

Gas7,49122%

Coal1,9005%

Fuel Oil2200.6%

15000

10000

5000

5000

10000

15000

11,159 11,010

7,491

1,900 1,455 1,216 419 220 180 120 10 1

-324

0

-10,146

-7,723

-750 -19

0

-2,792

-80

0 0 0

New

New installed power capacity and decommissioned power capacity in MW

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

PVWind Gas Coal Hydro

CSP Nuclear

WasteFuel oil

OceanGeothermal

Biomas

s

2013 share of new renewable power capacity installations in MW (total 25,208 MW)

Wind11,15944%

PV11,01043%

Biomass1,4556%

Hydro1,2165%

CSP4191%

Waste1801%

Geothermal100%

Ocean1

0%

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

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.

Installed power generating capacity per year in MW and RES share (%)

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

10000

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

Peat Fuel Oil Nuclear Coal Gas Ocean Geothermal CSP WasteHydro BIOMASS Photovoltaic Wind

72%

RES

Net electricity generating installations in EU 2000-2013 (GW)

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

-40

-20

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

80

7 72 2 0 0 0

-13

--19-24

Gas

HydroPVWind Bio-mass

WasteCSP Geo-thermal

Peat CoalNuclear Fueloil

Ocean

103105

EU power capacity mix

2000

2013

Sources: Platts PowerVision 2013, EWEA, EPIA, ESTELA

Hydro112,719

21%

Wind12,887

2%

Biomass4,5681%

Waste2,1990%

Peat1,6670%

Geothermal5920%

Ocean2480%

PV, 125, 0%

Coal133,220

25%

Nuclear122,966

23%

Gas91,92217%

Fuel Oil62,16611%

Hydro140,054

16% Wind117,288

13%

PV80,000

9%

Biomass, 11,288, 1%Waste4,2191%CSP2,3090%

Peat 1,808 0%

Geothermal765 0%

Ocean2620%

Gas201,000

22%

Coal171,405

19%

Nuclear122,328

14%

Fuel Oil,47,528

5%

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.

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 year before.

Annual wind power installations in EU (GW)

Source: EWEA

Share of EU wind power market, pioneering countries, Newer Member States, and rest of EU (GW)

Source: EWEA

Annual onshore and offshore installations (MW)

Source: EWEA

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

-1000

1000

3000

5000

7000

9000

11000

13000

4,377

5,743

5,186

5,749

6,454

7,097

8,632

8,109

9,704

9,030 8,920

10,937

9,592

51

170

276

90

90

93

318

373

575

883 874

1,166

1,567

Offshore onshore

Cumulative wind power installations in the EU (GW)

Source: EWEA

2,000 2,001 2,002 2,003 2,004 2,005 2,006 2,007 2,008 2,009 2,010 2,011 2,012 2,013

50

100

12.917.3

2328.5

34.440.8

48

56.7

65

75.3

85

94.5

106.4

117.3

EU Member State market shares for total installed capacity (total 118 GW)

Source: EWEA

Germany34

29%

Spain23

20%

UK119%

Italy9

7%

France8

7%

Denmark,5

4%

Portugal5

4%

Sweden4

4%

Poland3

3%

Netherlands,3

2%

Other13

11%

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