Global Wind Energy Council’s Key Highlights:
- Globally, an additional 165 GW of wind energy was added in 2025, with 73% (120 GW) added in China
- This global growth represents a 40% increase from 2024
- Total global installed wind energy capacity is now 1,300 GW (1.3 TW), supplying 937 million households
- Growth is being driven by, the ongoing energy transition; digitisation and data centre expansion; and increased heating and cooling systems due to climate change impacts
- Energy security is being redefined as ‘resilience, and diversification of renewable resources and sovereign control, rather than fuel supply’.
- Here in Aotearoa New Zealand, energy security is fundamental to our future wellbeing, and sovereign independence of energy supply is our pathway to achieve this.
- All renewables, including wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biofuels is our collective super-power!
