Recently, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released the Global Wind Report 2022.
According to the report, in 2021, the world's newly installed wind power capacity will be 93.6GW, down 1.8% from 2020. By the end of 2021, the cumulative installed capacity of global wind power reached 837GW, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%.
Although the momentum of the global onshore wind market has weakened in 2021, the newly installed capacity of 72.5GW is still the second highest in history. The newly installed capacity of offshore wind power in the whole year exceeded 21GW, more than three times that of the previous year and a record high.
From a regional perspective, thanks to the strong growth in China and Vietnam, the Asia-Pacific region will account for the largest share of the world's newly installed wind power capacity in 2021, at 59%; With a share of 19%, North America (14%) took the second place; Latin America, Africa and the Middle East also achieved the highest level of newly installed wind power capacity in history, and the two regions accounted for 6% and 2% of the global market respectively. %.
At the national level, the top five newly installed wind power capacity in 2021 will be China, the United States, Brazil, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, accounting for 75.1% of the global total, down 5.5 percentage points from 2020. This is mainly due to the fact that China and the United States have The share has shrunk by 10%. In terms of cumulative installed capacity, the top five countries are China, the United States, Germany, India, and Spain, which together account for 72% of the world, down 1% from 2020.
In 2021, the new installed capacity of global onshore wind power will be 72.5GW, and the cumulative installed capacity will reach 780.3GW. Throughout the year, new onshore wind capacity in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East hit a record high. However, due to the slowdown in onshore wind development in the two major markets, China and the United States, the overall global capacity addition remained unchanged. That's down 18% from 2020.
In addition to China and the United States, the top five countries with new onshore wind capacity in 2021 include Brazil (3.8GW), Vietnam (2.7GW), and Sweden (2.1GW).
