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Map of European Wind Farms

March 16, 2017


Map of European Wind Farms

Map created by SETIS from the EMHIRES dataset Part I

The map above shows the locations of wind farms across Europe and comes from the European Commission’s SETIS (Strategic Energy Technology Information System) website.

Two things really jump out at you when first looking at the map. The extreme destiny of wind farms in Germany and the lack of wind farms in Eastern Europe and also Norway.

According to Wind Europe, 12.5 GW of gross additional wind capacity was added in Europe in 2016 to bring the total to 153.7 GW, overtaking coal as the second most important energy source.

The top 10 countries in Europe in terms of installed capacity by the end of 2016 were:

  1. Germany – 50,019 MW
  2. Spain – 23,075 MW
  3. UK – 14,542 MW
  4. France – 12,065 MW
  5. Italy – 9,257 MW
  6. Sweden – 6,519 MW
  7. Poland – 5,782 MW
  8. Portugal – 5,316 MW
  9. Denmark – 5,227 MW
  10. Netherlands – 4,328 MW

Malta and Liechtenstein are the only two European countries to have no wind capacity whatsoever, although Slovakia, Slovenia, Iceland, and Belarus only have 3 MW of installed capacity each.

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Comments

  1. S Vagen says

    March 18, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    Thanks for great map!
    Regarding wind overtaking coal as the second most important energy source: This sounds like yet another half-truth that translates into a blatant lie about green energy.

    Measuring wind in installed MW against other energy sources is meanigless as it on average produces less than 30% of the installed capacity i MW – and will never produce significantly more than a third. Meanwhile coal can deliver over 90 % of installed capacity if required.
    Make no mistake, I am not a fan of coal, but I do not like to be mislead and lied to by propaganda like this.

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    • Xenos says

      March 22, 2017 at 3:52 pm

      Germany seems to be almost covered with windmills… What part of the total production is done by wind ?
      I totally agree with you S Vagen. Wind farms is a good job for wind farmers…

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      • Alex W says

        April 1, 2017 at 7:29 am

        In 2016, 30% were from renewables (of which 40% were from wind); coal contributed slightly less than renewables in total (29%); see https://www.bdew.de/internet.nsf/id/E4E10382D00C258AC125808F003B1389/$file/Folien_BDEW_Pressegespr%C3%A4ch_201216.pdf

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    • David says

      April 5, 2017 at 12:05 am

      Absurd, mate. Coal is untenable as a future fuel. Wind is one card in the deck. This map carries no politics. It’s just a map showing wind generation. Even with all its windmills, Denmark still imports nuclear power from Sweden. It is important, too, to realise (not the job of a map) that Norway has heaps of hydroelectricity (like NZ) and the capability and impetus to build wind (tidal, solar) are less urgent than coal in E Europe. EU could get gigawatts of solar from N Africa, both developing those nations and getting cheap power. Where there’s a will there’s a way, though more difficult in the teeth of naysayers,mate.

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      • Dalibor says

        October 21, 2020 at 7:20 am

        It’s very hard and unefficient to tranfer electricity over long distances because of big losses of voltage.

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  2. Leo Smith says

    April 4, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    I know the uk is third but it doesn’t reflect very well since we have more wind than anyone else…Norway are lucky enough to have a shed
    load of hydro and a small population

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  3. Steve C says

    April 5, 2017 at 9:27 am

    Any idea if anyone had produced a similar map available for North America?

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    • False Progress says

      June 16, 2020 at 2:42 am

      USGS has an easy to find wind turbine database. It looks like a bad case of smallpox, and that’s only 1/6th of what’s infested the whole planet; approx. 360,000 as of this posting.

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  4. Torqueback says

    April 6, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Fascinating – except that I’ve just sailed across the North sea and the place is littered with wind farms. These, plus gas and oil rigs, means that shipping has to keep its speed down: it’s like travelling through a built-up area…

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    • False Progress says

      June 16, 2020 at 2:41 am

      It’s not just “like” traveling through a built-up area, it’s the epitome of “green” hypocrisy. The land has it worse than the sea in many locations.

      And many bird and bat species meet a fatal end when trying dodge these giants. They will not learn to navigate through spinning gauntlets.

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  5. Pavel K says

    May 5, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Thank you Germany, thank you Netherland, thank you Denmark that there is no humid wind from the sea in the Czech republic. Go on and there will be desert in the future. Vivat wind mills.

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  6. False Progress says

    June 16, 2020 at 2:38 am

    Why has no one so far commented on the utter industrial blight these machines create? Too many people have lost respect for nature in its own right, and these eyesores are built with fossil fuels and maintained by them afterward.

    Germany’s turbine density is insane, and they’re phasing out their nuclear plants by 2022 even though they once provided 1/4th of their electricity.

    Wind power is blight for naught when you really study its efficacy vs. damage to lands, oceans, wildlife and human psychology.

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