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Executive summary ............................................................................... 3
2015 annual installations ....................................................................... 5
Wind power capacity installations .................................................. 5
Power capacity installations .......................................................... 6
Renewable power capacity installations ......................................... 7
Trends and cumulative installations .........................................................
Renewable power installations ......................................................
Net changes in EU installed power capacity 2000-2015 ..................
Total installed power capacity ........................................................
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Executive summary
2015 12,800 MW of wind power capacity was installed and grid-connected in the EU
annual during 2015, an increase of 6.3% on 2014 installations. 9,766 MW were installed
installations onshore and 3,034 MW offshore.
Wind power installed more than any other form of power generation in 2015. Wind
power accounted for 44.2% of total 2015 power capacity installations.
Renewable energy accounted for 77% of all new EU power installations in 2015:
22.3 GW of a total 29 GW.
Big variations between countries in their 2015 new installations reflect the relative
effectiveness of policy and regulatory frameworks and uncertainty over future
energy policy in EU Member States.
Trends There is now 142 GW of installed wind power capacity in the EU: 131 GW onshore
and total and 11 GW offshore.
installations The EU total installed power capacity increased by 11 GW net in 2015 to 908 GW.
Wind energy has overtaken hydro as the third largest source of power generation
in the EU with a 15.6% share of total power capacity.
Wind power accounts for one third of all new power installations since 2000
in the EU.
Conventional power sources such as fuel oil and coal continue to decommission
more capacity than they install. Gas installations also saw a high rate of capacity
decommissioning in 2015.
Wind Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed capacity (45 GW),
power followed by Spain (23 GW), the UK (14 GW) and France (10 GW). 16 EU countries
installations have over 1 GW wind power capacity installed, nine of these have more than 5 GW.
47% of all new installations in 2015 took place in just one country: Germany.
Poland, France and the UK followed with 1.3 GW, 1 GW and 970 MW respectively.
The total wind power capacity installed at the end of 2015 could produce 315 TWh
and cover 11.4% of the EU electricity consumption in a normal wind year.
26.4 billion was invested in Europe in 2015 to finance wind energy development.
This was 40% more than the total investment in 2014.
FINLAND
1
SWEDEN
6
NORWAY
0.8
RUSSIA
0.02
ESTONIA
0.3
LATVIA
0.1
DENMARK
5.1
IRELAND*
2.5
FAROE ISLANDS*
0.02
UNITED
KINGDOM
13.6
LITHUANIA
0.4
BELARUS
0.003
NETHERLANDS
3,.4
POLAND
5.1
GERMANY
45
BELGIUM
2,2
CZECH
REPUBLIC
0.3
LUXEMBOURG
0.1
FRANCE
10.4
SWITZERLAND
0.06
SLOVAKIA
0.003
AUSTRIA
2.4
HUNGARY
0.3
SLOVENIA
0.003
CROATIA
0.4
ROMANIA
3
SERBIA
0.01
BULGARIA
0.7
ITALY
9
PORTUGAL
5.1
UKRAINE
0.5
FYROM
0.04
SPAIN
23
TURKEY
4.7
GREECE
2.2
MALTA
-
12,037.4
129,060.1
12,800.2 141,578.8
Installed 2014
Candidate Countries (MW)
FYROM
37
Serbia
Turkey
804
Total
841
EFTA (MW)
Iceland
1.2
Liechtenstein
Norway
48.0
Switzerland
Total
Other (MW)
Belarus
Faroe Islands
Russia
Ukraine
Total
Total Europe
End 2014
CYPRUS
0.2
Installed 2015
End 2015
37
3,738
3,775
9.9
956
965.9
37
9.9
4,694
4,740.9
3
819.3
60.4
22.5
-
3
837.6
60.4
49.2
882.7
22.5
901
11.7
126.3
138.0
13,065.6
3.4
18.3
15.4
497.5
534.7
134,252.7
16.6
16.6
13,805.2
3.4
18.3
15.4
514.1
551.3
147,772
* Provisional data
Note: Annual installations figures reflect the total new capacity added in one year. As such, they
are gross figures, not including decommissioning. Cumulative capacity figures are net, including
decommissioning year over year. Due to 281 MW of decommissioned capacity, the total 2015
end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent to the sum of the 2014 end-of-year
total plus the 2015 annual additions.
Portugal, 132, 1%
Austria
323
2.5%
Estonia, 1, 0.01%
Finland
379
3%
Netherlands
586
4.6%
Sweden
615
4.8%
UK
975
7.6%
Germany
6,013
47%
France
1,073 Poland
8.4% 1,266
9.9%
Gas
1,867
6.4%
Ocean
4
0.01%
Nuclear
100
0.3%
Geothermal
4
0.01%
Waste
119
0.4%
Coal
4,714
16.3%
Biomass
232
0.8%
Wind
12,800
44.2%
Hydro
238
0.8%
Solar PV
8,500
29.4%
CSP
370
1.3%
15,000
12,800
10,000
8,500
4,714
5,000
1,867
-
370 -
239 -
(281)
232
119
100
(518)
(1,825)
-5,000
(8,051)
-10,000
Wind
PV
CSP
Hydro
Biomass Waste
New
(3,282)
(4,254)
Geothermal
Ocean
Peat
Coal
Gas
Nuclear
Fuel oil
Decommissioned
Waste
119
0.5%
Hydro
238
1.1%
Ocean
4
0.01%
CSP
370
1.7%
Geothermal
4
0.01%
Solar PV
8,500
38.2%
Wind
12,800
57.5%
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Peat
Fuel oil
Hydro
PV
Waste
Gas
Geothermal
CSP
Nuclear
Coal
Wind
Biomass
137,530
120,525
120,000
95,350
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
8,920
8,160
4,622
3,045
431
265
13
(11,808)
20,000
(32,580)
40,000
60,000
(39,580)
Wind
Gas
PV
Hydro Biomass
CSP
Waste
Geothermal
Peat
Ocean Nuclear
Coal
Fuel oil
Coal
133,220
24.4%
Gas
91,922
16.9%
Hydro
112,719
20.7%
Nuclear
122,966
22.6%
Gas
191,960
21.1%
Nuclear
120,208
13.2%
Hydro
141,073
15.5%
Coal
159,219
17.5%
Wind
141,579
15.6%
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12.8
12.1
12.1
12
11.4
10.3
10
9.0
8
9.9
9.8
2010
2011
8.5
7.2
6.5
5.9
5.5
5.8
4.4
4
3.2
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2012
2013
2014
2015
FIGURE 10: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR NEW WIND ENERGY CAPACITY INSTALLED DURING 2015 (MW). TOTAL 12,800.2 MW
7,000
6,000
6,013
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,266
1,000
10
1,073 975
615
586
379
323
295
274
224
217
172
145
132
76
23
11
Germany
France
Sweden
Finland
Italy
Ireland
Greece
Portugal
Romania
Estonia
Poland
UK
Netherlands
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Lithuania
Croatia
Cyprus
12,000
1,175
10,000
10,892
582
883
9,706
318
8,632
8,000
373
8,115
93
90
170
6,000
90
5,743
10,591
9,900
866
3,035
9,766
8,877
7,097
6,454
5,749
5,186
51
4,000
276
9,006
1,447
1,567
4,377
2,000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Onshore
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Offshore
140
129.1
117.4
120
94.5
100
75.3
80
56.7
60
40
20
0
12.9
2000
17.3
2001
23.1
2002
34.4
40.8
2004
2005
106.5
85.1
65.1
48.0
28.5
2003
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
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Germany (44.9 GW) and Spain (23 GW) have the largest
cumulative installed wind energy capacity in Europe.
Together they represent 48% of total EU capacity. The UK,
France and Italy follow with 13.6 GW (9.6% of total EU
capacity), 10.4 GW (7.3%) and 9 GW (6.3%) respectively.
FIGURE 13: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR TOTAL INSTALLED CAPACITY (GW). TOTAL 141.6 GW
50
45
44.9
40
35
30
25
23
20
13.6
15
10.4
10
9
6
0
Germany
UK
Spain
Italy
France
Poland
Sweden
Denmark Romania
Austria
Greece
Belgium
0.7 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0030.003
Bulgaria
Finland
Croatia
Estonia
Lithuania Hungary
Cyprus
Czech
Republic
Luxem- Slovakia
bourg
Latvia Slovenia
Total EU
electricity
consumption
(TWh)
Onshore
wind energy
production
(TWh)
Offshore
wind energy
production
(TWh)
Wind energy
production
(TWh)
2,770
274.5
40.6
315
Share of EU
Share of EU
consumption
consumption
met by onshore met by offshore
wind
wind (TWh)
9.9%
1.5%
Share of EU
consumption
met by wind
energy
11.4%
Wind energy penetration levels are calculated using average capacity factors onshore and offshore and Eurostat electricity consumption figures (2013). Consequently, table 1 indicates the approximate share of consumption met by the installed wind energy
capacity at the end of 2015. The figure does not represent real wind energy production over a calendar year. The most recent data
(2013) for EU28 final energy consumption of electricity from Eurostat, is 2,770 TWh. Eurostat, online table code [nrg_105a],
extracted on 26 January 2016.
12
30
25
40%
20
30%
-23%
15
-8%
24%
10
5
-
2010
2011
2012
Onshore Wind
2013
2014
2015
Offshore Wind
UK
12,598
Germany
1,388
Finland
949
Belgium
918
Italy
915
Turkey
822
Poland
648
Sweden
557
Ireland
513
Austria
483
Others
2,000
Biogas
860
2%
Biofuels
801
2%
Other renewables
642
2%
Biomass
2,466
6%
Solar PV
5,872
15%
Offshore Wind
13,251
34%
Onshore Wind
13,121
33%
1,260
-
Hydro
900
2%
Geothermal
1,366
4%
5,323
France
6,000
10,000
14,000
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