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United-Kingdom
104,702,6 MW - 1,416 windfarms - 13,477 turbines (*)


Official installed capacities  

 Year Capacity
(MW)
Growth
(%)
Onshore share
(MW)
Offshore share
(MW)
 1997319
 1998333
 1999347
 2000409
 2001474
 2002552
 2003684
 2004888
 20051,353
 20061,963
 20072,389
 20083,288
 20094,051
 20105,204
 20116,556
 20128,445
 201310,531
 201412,440
 201513,614
 201614,602
 201718,872
 201820,964
 201923,515
 202024,167
 202127,130
 202228,537
 202330,215
 202432,360
 202532,894


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Zones (*)  

 Zone Connected
capacity (MW)
Share (%)
 Offshore
 Highland (Scotland)
 South Lanarkshire (Scotland)
 Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
 Scottish Borders (Scotland)
 East Renfrewshire (Scotland)
 Aberdeenshire (Scotland)
 Tyrone (Northern Ireland)
 Moray (Scotland)
 Derry (Northern Ireland)
 Shetland (Scotland)
 Argyll and Bute (Scotland)
 South Ayrshire (Scotland)
 Neath Port Talbot (Wales)
 East Riding of Yorkshire (England)
 Perth and Kinross (Scotland)
 Northumberland (England)
 Cumbria (England)
 Antrim (Northern Ireland)
 Cambridgeshire (England)
 East Ayrshire (Scotland)
 Powys (Wales)
 Lancashire (England)
 Carmarthenshire (Wales)
 Denbighshire (Wales)
 Stirling (Scotland)
 Durham (England)
 Fermanagh (Northern Ireland)
 East Lothian (Scotland)
 Northamptonshire (England)
 Cornwall (England)
 Devon (England)
 South Yorkshire (England)
 Lincolnshire (England)
 North Ayrshire (Scotland)
 Rhondda Cynon Taff (Wales)
 West Lothian (Scotland)
 North Lincolnshire (England)
 Kent (England)
 Fife (Scotland)
 North Yorkshire (England)
 West Yorkshire (England)
 North Lanarkshire (Scotland)
 Ceredigion (Wales)
 Essex (England)
 Bedfordshire (England)
 Norfolk (England)
 Anglesey (Wales)
 Clackmannanshire (Scotland)
 Bridgend (Wales)
 Cheshire (England)
 Leicestershire (England)
 Orkney (Scotland)
 Falkirk (Scotland)
 Nottinghamshire (England)
 Bristol (England)
 Outer Hebrides (Scotland)
 Peterborough (England)
 Gwynedd (Wales)
 Inverclyde (Scotland)
 Suffolk (England)
 Derbyshire (England)
 Newport (Wales)
 Pembrokeshire (Wales)
 Conwy (Wales)
 (Scotland)
 NorthEast Lincolnshire (England)
 Tyne and Wear (England)
 Angus (Scotland)
 Milton Keynes (England)
 Merseyside (England)
 Darlington (England)
 Greater London (England)
 Staffordshire (England)
 (England)
 Dorset (England)
 Blaenau Gwent (Wales)
 East Sussex (England)
 Hartlepool (England)
 Caerphilly (Wales)
 South Gloucestershire (England)
 Oxfordshire (England)
 Somerset (England)
 Gloucestershire (England)
 Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
 Dundee (Scotland)
 City of Glasgow (Scotland)
 Hull (England)
 Cardiff (Wales)
 Down (Northern Ireland)
 Berkshire (England)
 Falkland Islands
 (Wales)
 Grand Manchester (England)
 Buckinghamshire (England)
 (Northern Ireland)
 Merthyr Tydfil (Wales)
 Worcestershire (England)
 West Midlands (England)
 Flintshire (Wales)
 British Overseas Territory
 Aberdeen City (Scotland)
 Redcar and Cleveland (England)
 Armagh (Northern Ireland)
 Hampshire (England)
 British Virgin Islands
 Swansea (Wales)
 Hertfordshire (England)
 Unidentified 0,0


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Top 10 manufacturers (*)  

 Manufacturer Connected
capacity (MW)
Market share (%)
 Siemens
 Vestas
 Siemens-Gamesa
 Nordex
 Senvion
 Enercon
 Gamesa
 Repower
 GE Vernova
 MHI Vestas Offshore
 Others 975,0
 Unidentified 2,079,3


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Top 25 turbines (*)  

 Turbine Connected
capacity (MW)
Market share (%)
 SWT-3.6-107
 SWT-7.0-154
 V164/9500
 SG 8.0-167 DD
 SWT-6.0-154
 V164/10MW
 SWT-2.3-93
 SG 14-222 DD
 MM92/2050
 N90/2500
 V90/3000
 V90/3000 Offshore
 V164/8000
 SWT-2.3-101
 V80/2000
 E70/2300
 V112/3450
 V117/4000-4200
 SWT-3.6-120
 SWT-3.0-101
 N133/4800
 N80/2500
 MM82
 SWT-2.3-82 VS
 V117/3450
 Others 6,594,8
 Unidentified 2,671,1


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Turbine power distribution (*)  

 Power range Number of connected
turbines
Represented capacity
(MW)
 Less than 1 MW
 1 to 2 MW
 2 to 3 MW
 3 to 4 MW
 4 to 5 MW
 5 to 6 MW
 6 to 7 MW
 7 to 8 MW
 More than 8 MW


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Wind farm age distribution (*)  

 Period Number of connected
wind farms
Number of connected
turbines
Represented capacity (MW)
 Before 1980
 1980 to 1989
 1990 to 1999
 2000 to 2009
 2010 to 2019
 Since 2020
 Undated


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Databases

      

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Main windfarms in operation

Hornsea Project Two - Breesea and Optimus Wind (1,386,0 MW)
Seagreen (1,075,0 MW)
Moray West (882,0 MW)
East Anglia One (714,0 MW)
London Array (630,0 MW)
Hornsea Project One - Heron Wind (609,0 MW)
Hornsea Project One - Njord (609,0 MW)
Beatrice (588,0 MW)
Gwynt y Môr (576,0 MW)
Viking Energy (442,9 MW)
Neart na Gaoithe (432,0 MW)
Dudgeon (402,0 MW)
Rampion (400,2 MW)
West of Duddon Sands (388,8 MW)
Galloper (353,0 MW)


Recent windfarms

Camster II (36,0 MW)
Benbrack (67,1 MW)
Limekiln (88,2 MW)
Limekiln Extension (21,0 MW)
Moray West (882,0 MW)
Pines Burn (19,2 MW)
Pines Burn (14,4 MW)
Deuchries (4,7 MW)
Kirk Hill Wind Farm (18,8 MW)
Knocknain Farm (#ND MW)


Legend

#ND: no data
(*): according to The Wind Power database


Update for this sheet

18 May 2026




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