Europe's annual wind deployments drop 32% in 2018
Renewables Now | February 22, 2019
The European wind industry brought online 11.7 GW of fresh wind power capacity in 2018, down 32% in annual terms, statistics by WindEurope showed on Thursday. A total of 8.6 GW of onshore and 2.65 GW of offshore wind turbines became operational in the past year, which also saw the decommissioning of 0.4 GW of wind turbines, most of which onshore. In the EU alone, wind capacity additions were 10.1 GW, or 87% of the European total.