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London and New York, March 9, 2026 – Global wind capacity additions hit an all-time high in 2025, marking a third straight year of record installations, according to BloombergNEF’s annual Global Wind Turbine Market Shares 2025, which ranks the world’s top wind turbine suppliers. 

Project developers brought 169 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines online last year, 38% more than in 2024. Some 161GW, or 95%, of global wind additions were onshore, while 8GW was installed offshore. 

Mainland China’s booming onshore wind sector underpinned most of the growth in 2025, becoming the first market to add over 100GW in a single year. As a result, Chinese turbine makers took the top six places in BNEF’s market share ranking for the first time: Goldwind maintained its position as the world’s leading wind turbine supplier, installing 29.3GW in 2025. Envision retained second place with 20.9GW, almost a quarter of which was outside mainland China. Mingyang and Windey followed, while Sany and Dongfang Electric rounded out the top six with around 13.5GW each. 

“Thanks to stable long-term policy support, wind installations over the past decade have become increasingly concentrated in mainland China.” said Cristian Dinca, wind associate at BloombergNEF and lead author of the report. “Chinese manufacturers consistently top the global rankings. They benefitted particularly in 2025, as companies and provinces rushed to commission projects ahead of power market reforms and to meet targets set out in the Five-Year-Plan.” 

Chinese turbine makers continued to rely heavily on their home market, with domestic installations accounting for 93% of all capacity added by these players in 2025. Yet this marked a notable drop from 99% in 2024, indicating the export push is starting to pay off. Envision and Goldwind led on non-domestic commissioned capacity. 

“This moment marks the emergence of Chinese manufacturers as true global players, as their commissioned capacity abroad has increased eightfold over the last year.” said Oliver Metcalfe, head of wind research at BloombergNEF. “Challenged by razor-thin margins at home, Chinese suppliers are leveraging lower-cost production and fast delivery to enter new markets and undercut established rivals across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.” 

Outside mainland China, new additions also rose, increasing 17% year-on-year to 43GW. For the first time since wind power emerged as a major global force, India edged out the US and Germany to claim the title of biggest wind market outside mainland China. India’s climb is bolstered by complex auctions, which typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind. 

“India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world.” said Siddharth Shetty, BNEF’s lead wind analyst for India. “The sector is reaping the rewards of complex auctions, pioneered by India’s clean power auctioning agencies in 2018. And this momentum is not fading. We expect wind build to continue at similar levels through the end of this decade.” 

Danish turbine maker Vestas retained its position as the largest supplier of commissioned projects outside mainland China. However, it slipped to seventh overall in 2025, the first time Vestas has been out of the top five since BNEF began publishing its rankings in 2013. The firm had the most diverse market exposure of any turbine maker last year, commissioning projects in 28 markets. 

The wind unit of German giant Siemens Energy topped the offshore market for the second year in a row, edging out Chinese turbine maker Goldwind. After three consecutive years of growth, offshore wind build contracted by a third in 2025, adding only 8.1GW. Project delays in key markets like mainland China and France hit the sector hard, as did political headwinds in the US, where activity ground to a temporary standstill. BNEF expects offshore wind additions to rebound in 2026 as delayed projects come online and a fresh batch of industrial-scale projects in the North Sea start to commission. 

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