Wind Power Capacity

Wind energy applications and turbine installations at different scales have increased since the beginning of this century. Increasing demand of energy in the fast growing economy forced to look at alternative sources of renewable energy. As wind energy is an alternative clean energy source compared to the fossil fuels that pollute the atmosphere and exhaustive resources, systems that convert wind energy to electricity have developed rapidly. The energy is one of the economic renewable sources and a valuable supplement to conventional energy sources. The overall capacity of all wind turbines installed worldwide by the end of 2017 reached 539’291 Megawatt and all wind turbines installed by end of 2017 can cover more than 5% of the global electricity demand. China has the highest installed wind capacity with 187730 Megawatts which is equal to 34% of total world capacity in 2017. Out of the leading markets US stands at 2nd whereas India at 4th with 32,879 Megawatts which is just 6% of world capacity.