The United Kingdom generated 82.3 terawatt hours worth of electricity and heat through wind power in 2023. Onshore wind farms produced 32.6 terawatt hours of power, which was less than the amount generated by farms situated offshore. Wind power capacities have steadily increased in the past year, with renewable energies taking up a greater share of the UK's energy mix, following the phase-out of coal.

This statistic illustrates the projected end-of-period production of onshore and offshore wind power in the UK between 2010 and 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, the United Kingdom is expected to generate around 35.16 terawatt hours of electricity derived from onshore wind.

This statistic represents the projected offshore wind power production in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2020. Between 2013 and 2014, UK offshore wind power production is expected to reach around 18.4 terawatt hours.

List of renewable energy power stations. This Data Package contains a list of renewable energy power plants in lists of renewable energy-based power plants of Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Czechia: Renewable-energy power plants in Czech Republic. Denmark: Wind and phovoltaic power plants with a high level of detail. France: Renewable-energy power plants of various types (solar, hydro, wind, bioenergy marine, geothermal) in France. Germany: Individual power plants, all renewable energy plants supported by the German Renewable Energy Law (EEG). Poland: Summed capacity and number of installations per energy source per municipality (Powiat). Sweden: Wind power plants in Sweden. Switzerland: All renewable-energy power plants supported by the feed-in-tariff KEV (Kostendeckende Einspeisevergütung). United Kingdom: Renewable-energy power plants in the United Kingdom. Due to different data availability, the power plant lists are of different accurancy and partly provide different power plant parameter. Due to that, the lists are provided as seperate csv-files per country and as separate sheets in the excel file. Suspect data or entries with high probability of duplication are marked in the column 'comment'. Theses validation markers are explained in the file validation_marker.csv. Additionally, the Data Package includes daily time series of cumulated installed capacity per energy source type for Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Sweden. All data processing is conducted in Python and pandas and has been documented in the Jupyter Notebooks linked below.

Individual capacity of offshore wind turbines in the United Kingdom is highest at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, in the Aberdeen Bay. As of September 2020, the Vatenfall operated demonstration site is made up of turbines with individual capacities of 8.4 megawatts. The largest wind farm in terms of number of turbines is London Array Phase 1.

This statistic represents the projected onshore wind power capacity in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2020. Between 2013 and 2014, UK onshore wind power capacity is expected to reach around 8.3 gigawatts.

Previous projections in the UK for wind annual installed capacity in 2020 have been revised due to the coronavirus. Total annual installations in 2019 stood at 2.47GW, with estimates for 2020 at 1.22GW. However, due to the outbreak annual installations are now expected to reach 0.98GW.

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GlobalData’s renewable energy offering, “Wind Power Market Outlook in Japan to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Major Power Plants, Market share of Equipment Manufacturers and Regulations” gives a view of Japan’s wind energy market and provides forecasts to 2020. This report includes information on wind installed capacity and generation. It provides information on key trends, market share analysis of key component manufacturers, profiles of major industry participants, information on major wind Power Plants(wind farms) and analysis of important deals. This, along with detailed information on the regulatory framework and key policies governing the industry, provides a comprehensive understanding of the market for wind power in the country. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData’s team of industry experts. Read More

GlobalData’s renewable energy offering, “Wind Power Market Outlook in Australia to 2020 – Market share of Equipment Manufacturers and Regulations” gives a view of Australia’s wind energy market and provides forecasts to 2020. This report includes information on wind installed capacity and generation. It provides information on key trends, market share analysis of key component manufacturers, profiles of major industry participants, information on major wind Power Plants(wind farms) and analysis of important deals. This, along with detailed information on the regulatory framework and key policies governing the industry, provides a comprehensive understanding of the market for wind power in the country. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData’s team of industry experts. Read More

Electricity generated by renewables as a percentage of gross consumption 2000 - 2020

This release includes annual estimates of low carbon and renewable energy economy activity in the UK and constituent countries: turnover, employment, exports, imports, acquisitions, disposals and number of businesses.

The Sectoral Marine Plan aims to identify the most sustainable plan options for the future development of commercial-scale offshore wind energy in Scotland, including deep water wind technologies and covers both Scottish inshore and offshore waters (extending out to the Exclusive Economic Zone limit). The Sectoral Marine seeks to contribute to the achievement of Scottish and UK energy and climate change policy objectives and targets, through the provision of a spatial strategy to inform the seabed leasing process for commercial offshore wind energy in Scottish waters, which: - Minimises the potential adverse effects on other marine users, economic sectors and the environment resulting from further commercial-scale offshore wind development; and - Maximises opportunities for economic development, investment and employment in Scotland, by identifying new opportunities for commercial scale offshore wind development, including deeper water wind technologies. The Plan Options provide the spatial footprint for this Sectoral Marine Plan.

This statistic shows the United Kingdom (UK) public opinion on the 2020 European Union (EU) objective to increase the share of renewable energy in the EU by 20 percent, as of May 2017. This was considered too ambitious by 19 percent of respondents.

Throughout Europe, many nations saw shares of wind and solar power in their energy mix increase during government imposed lockdowns to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The largest share was experienced in Denmark at 65 percent, up from 57 percent the previous year.

Wind and solar power accounted for 23 percent of electricity production in the EU-27 and UK during this period. In comparison, electricity generation from coal dropped significantly.

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