Operating Wind Power Capacity

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: wind-power-capacity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Operating Wind Power Capacity: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	157	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	157	0
Operating (MW)operating_mwHeadline	The headline figure: Wind farm capacity in operation (megawatts).	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.053 share it542,758.4Chinamiddle 100.0	98	0
Under construction (MW)construction_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity under construction, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	096 share it212,786Chinamiddle 0	58	0
Pre-construction (MW)pre_construction_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity actively seeking permits, land rights or financing but not yet under construction, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.050 share it366,529.1Chinamiddle 200.0	99	0
Announced (MW)announced_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity described in corporate or government plans that has not yet taken concrete steps such as applying for permits, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.051 share it254,906.4Brazilmiddle 240.0	95	0
Prospective: construction, pre-construction and announced (MW)prospective_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity in the pipeline — under construction, pre-construction and announced together — in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.024 share it743,587.7Chinamiddle 550.0	118	0
Cancelled (MW)cancelled_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity whose projects have been cancelled, or show no progress for at least four years, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	053 share it65,639Australiamiddle 100	94	0
Shelved (MW)shelved_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity whose projects have been suspended, or show no progress for at least two years, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	068 share it41,164Vietnammiddle 55	80	0
Retired (MW)retired_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity that has been decommissioned, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0136 share it14,164United Statesmiddle 0	20	0
Mothballed (MW)mothballed_mwMeasure	Wind farm capacity that is fully built but not in use and not dismantled, in megawatts.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0148 share it1,289Ukrainemiddle 0	10	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One year, covering 157 countries.

Not in this dataset · 68 places this site covers

Global Energy Monitor gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaBahamasBelizeBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurkina FasoBurundiCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCôte d’IvoireDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniFrench PolynesiaGabonGibraltarGuinea-BissauHaitiKiribatiLiberiaLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNepalNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaParaguayQatarRepublic of the CongoRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSurinameTajikistanTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Global Energy Monitor

   globalenergymonitor.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Global Wind Power Tracker, February 2026 release — wind farm capacity by country

   Read from the publisher’s own service.

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per year

   It downloads as a CSV: wind-power-capacity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/wind-power-capacity

From Global Energy Monitor’s Global Wind Power Tracker, read from its own country summary table. Figures are the table’s stored values, to a tenth of a megawatt, which is more precise than the whole numbers it displays. Territories the tracker lists separately are left out rather than added to another country.

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  Operating Wind Power Capacity by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

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