Wind in power

2015 European statistics

February 2016

THE EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION 1

WIND IN POWER: 2015 EUROPEAN STATISTICS

Contents
Executive summary ............................................................................... 3

2015 annual installations ....................................................................... 5

Wind power capacity installations .................................................. 5
Power capacity installations .......................................................... 6
Renewable power capacity installations ......................................... 7

Trends and cumulative installations ......................................................... 7

Renewable power installations ...................................................... 7
Net changes in EU installed power capacity 2000-2015 .................. 8
Total installed power capacity ........................................................ 8

A closer look at wind power installations ................................................. 9

Total installed power capacity ........................................................ 9
National breakdown of wind power installations .............................. 10
Onshore and offshore annual markets ........................................... 10
Cumulative wind power installations .............................................. 11

Wind power penetration.......................................................................... 12

Investment highlights: trends and developments in 2015........................... 13

Data collection and analysis

Giorgio Corbetta, European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)
Ariola Mbistrova (EWEA)
Andrew Ho (EWEA)
Editor: Iván Pineda (EWEA)
Revision: Kristian Ruby (EWEA)
Data sources
Clean Energy Pipeline, January 2016
Platts PowerVision, January 2016
EWEA, wind energy data
OEE, ocean energy data
EPIA, solar PV data
ESTELA, CSP data
EWEA acknowledges the kind cooperation of
the following National Associations and institutions:
IG Windkraft (AT) – BOP, EDORA and ODE (BE) - BGWEA (BG) - RP Global Projekti (HR) - K. Ellinas Energy (CY) - CSVE (CZ)– DWIA
(DK) – Tuulenergia (EE) – SEV (FO) – Suomen Tuulivoimayhdistys ry (FI) – France Énergie Éolienne and Syndicat des Énergies
Renouvelables (FR) – BWE, VDMA and Stiftung Offshore Windenergie (DE) – HWEA (EL) – HWIA (HU) – IWEA (IE) – Landsvirkjun
(IS) –ANEV and assoRinnovabili (IT) - LWEA (LV) – LWPA (LT) – Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar (HR) – Ministry of Sustainable
Development and Infrastructures (LU) – NWEA (NL) – PWEA (PL) – APREN (PT) – NorWEA (NO) - RWEA (RO) – Continental Wind
Partners (SRB) – Slovak Renewable Energy Agency (SK) – University of Maribor (SI) – RAWI (RS) – Svenskvindenergi (SE) – AEE
(ES) - Suisse Eole (CH) – TÜREB (TK) – UWEA (UA) – RenewableUK (UK).

Photo cover: Courtesy of GE Renewable Energy

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Executive summary

2015 • 12,800 MW of wind power capacity was installed and grid-connected in the EU
annual during 2015, an increase of 6.3% on 2014 installations. 9,766 MW were installed
installations onshore and 3,034 MW offshore.
• Wind power installed more than any other form of power generation in 2015. Wind
power accounted for 44.2% of total 2015 power capacity installations.
• Renewable energy accounted for 77% of all new EU power installations in 2015:
22.3 GW of a total 29 GW.
• Big variations between countries in their 2015 new installations reflect the relative
effectiveness of policy and regulatory frameworks and uncertainty over future
energy policy in EU Member States.

Trends •There is now 142 GW of installed wind power capacity in the EU: 131 GW onshore
and total and 11 GW offshore.
installations • The EU total installed power capacity increased by 11 GW net in 2015 to 908 GW.
• Wind energy has overtaken hydro as the third largest source of power generation
in the EU with a 15.6% share of total power capacity.
• Wind power accounts for one third of all new power installations since 2000
in the EU.
• Conventional power sources such as fuel oil and coal continue to decommission
more capacity than they install. Gas installations also saw a high rate of capacity
decommissioning in 2015.

Wind • Germany remains the EU country with the largest installed capacity (45 GW),
power followed by Spain (23 GW), the UK (14 GW) and France (10 GW). 16 EU countries
installations have over 1 GW wind power capacity installed, nine of these have more than 5 GW.
• 47% of all new installations in 2015 took place in just one country: Germany.
Poland, France and the UK followed with 1.3 GW, 1 GW and 970 MW respectively.
• The total wind power capacity installed at the end of 2015 could produce 315 TWh
and cover 11.4% of the EU electricity consumption in a normal wind year.
• €26.4 billion was invested in Europe in 2015 to finance wind energy development.
This was 40% more than the total investment in 2014.

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 FINLAND
1
SWEDEN
Wind power installed in Europe by end of 6

2015 (cumulative, GW)

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NORWAY RUSSIA
0.8 0.02
ESTONIA
0.3

LATVIA
0.1

DENMARK LITHUANIA
5.1 0.4

IRELAND* BELARUS
2.5 NETHERLANDS 0.003
FAROE ISLANDS* UNITED
0.02 KINGDOM 3,.4
13.6
POLAND
5.1 UKRAINE
GERMANY
0.5
BELGIUM 45
2,2 CZECH
LUXEMBOURG REPUBLIC
0.1 0.3 SLOVAKIA
0.003

AUSTRIA
HUNGARY
FRANCE SWITZERLAND 2.4
0.3
10.4 0.06 ROMANIA
SLOVENIA 3
0.003
CROATIA
0.4 SERBIA
0.01
BULGARIA
0.7
ITALY
9 FYROM
PORTUGAL
5.1 0.04
SPAIN
TURKEY
23
GREECE 4.7
2.2

MALTA
-
Installed End 2014 Installed End 2015 CYPRUS
2014 2015 0.2
European Union: 141,579 MW
EU Capacity (MW)
Austria 405 2,089.2 323 2,411.5 Candidate Countries: 4,741 MW
Belgium 293.5 1,958.7 274.2 2,228.7 EFTA: 901 MW
Bulgaria 10.1 691.2 - 691.2 Total Europe: 147,772 MW
Croatia 85.7 346.5 76.2 422.7
Cyprus - 146.7 10.8 157.5
Czech Republic 14 281.5 - 281.5 Installed 2014 End 2014 Installed 2015 End 2015
Denmark 104.9 4,881.7 216.8 5,063.8 Candidate Countries (MW)
Estonia 22.8 302.7 0.7 303.4 FYROM 37 37 - 37
Finland 184.3 626.7 379.4 1,000.5 Serbia - - 9.9 9.9
France 1,042.1 9,285.1 1,073.1 10,358.2 Turkey 804 3,738 956 4,694
Germany 5,242.5 39,127.9 6,013.4 44,946.1 Total 841 3,775 965.9 4,740.9
Greece 113.9 1,979.9 172.2 2,151.7 EFTA (MW)
Hungary - 328.9 - 328.9 Iceland 1.2 3 - 3
Ireland* 213.0 2,262.3 224 2,486.3 Liechtenstein - - - -
Italy 107.5 8,662.8 295 8,957.8 Norway 48.0 819.3 22.5 837.6
Latvia 0.4 61.7 - 61.7 Switzerland - 60.4 - 60.4
Lithuania 0.5 279.6 144.7 424.3
Total 49.2 882.7 22.5 901
Luxembourg - 58.3 - 58.3
Other (MW)
Malta - - - -
Belarus - 3.4 - 3.4
Netherlands 175 2,865 586 3,431
Faroe Islands 11.7 18.3 - 18.3
Poland 444.3 3,833.8 1,266.2 5,100
Russia - 15.4 - 15.4
Portugal 222 4,947 132 5,079
Romania 354 2,952.9 23 2,975.9 Ukraine 126.3 497.5 16.6 514.1
Slovakia - 3.1 - 3.1 Total 138.0 534.7 16.6 551.3
Slovenia 0.9 3.4 - 3.4 Total Europe 13,065.6 134,252.7 13,805.2 147,772
Spain 27.5 23,025.3 - 23,025.3
* Provisional data
Sweden 1,050.2 5,424.8 614.5 6,024.8 Note: Annual installations figures reflect the total new capacity added in one year. As such, they
UK 1,923.4 12,633.4 975.1 13,602.5 are gross figures, not including decommissioning. Cumulative capacity figures are net, including
decommissioning year over year. Due to 281 MW of decommissioned capacity, the total 2015
Total EU-28 12,037.4 129,060.1 12,800.2 141,578.8 end-of-year cumulative capacity is not exactly equivalent to the sum of the 2014 end-of-year
total plus the 2015 annual additions.

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2015 annual installations

Wind power capacity installations

During 2015, 13,805.2 MW of wind power was installed FIGURE 1: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR NEW WIND
across Europe, 5.4% more than in the previous year. ENERGY CAPACITY INSTALLED DURING 2015 (MW). TOTAL
12,800.2 MW of it was in the European Union. 12,800.2 MW 

Of the capacity installed in the EU, 9,765.7 MW

Greece, 172, 1.3% Lithuania, 145, 1.1%
was onshore and 3,034.5 MW offshore. In 2015,
Denmark, 217, 1.7% Portugal, 132, 1%
the annual onshore market decreased in the EU by
Ireland, 224, 1.7% Croatia, 76, 0.6%
7.8 %, and offshore installations more than doubled Belgium, 274, 2.1% Romania, 23, 0.2%
compared to 2014. Overall, EU wind energy annual Italy, 295, 2.3% Cyprus, 11, 0.1%
installations increased by 6.3% compared to 2014 Austria Estonia, 1, 0.01%
installations. 323
2.5%
Finland
379
Germany was the largest market in 2015 in terms of 3%
Netherlands
annual installations, installing 6,013.4 MW of new 586
capacity, 2,282.4 MW of which was offshore (38% 4.6%
Germany
of total capacity installed in Germany). Poland came Sweden
6,013
615
second with 1,266.4 MW, more than twice the annual 4.8% UK 47%
installations in 2014 and one quarter of its national 975
7.6%
cumulative capacity at end 2015. France was third France
1,073 Poland
with 1,073.1 MW and the UK fourth with 975.1 MW, 8.4% 1,266
59% of which was offshore (572.1 MW). 9.9%

Almost half of the new capacity installed in 2015

came from the pioneering markets of Germany and
Denmark. This is mainly due to the stability of the
regulatory frameworks in these countries, which gives
investors visibility on future projects’ cash flows and
favours investments in wind energy. Offshore wind accounted for 24% of total EU wind
power installations in 2015, double the share of
47% of all new EU installations in 2015 took place in annual additions in 2014. This confirms the growing
Germany and 73% occurred in the top four markets, a relevance of the offshore wind industry in the
similar trend to the one seen in 2014. development of wind energy in the EU.

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Power capacity installations

In 2015, 28.9 GW of new power generating capacity FIGURE 2: SHARE OF NEW POWER CAPACITY INSTALLATIONS IN
was installed in the EU, 2.4 GW more than in 2014. EU (MW). TOTAL 28,948.7 MW

Wind power was the energy technology with the Gas

Ocean
highest installation rate in 2015: 12.8 GW, accounting 4
1,867
6.4%
for 44% of all new installations. Solar PV came second 0.01%
Nuclear
with 8.5 GW (29% of 2015 installations) and coal third Geothermal
100
4
with 4.7 GW (16%). 0.01%
0.3%

Waste
Gas installed 1.9 GW (6.4 % of total installations), CSP 119
370 MW (1.3%), hydro 238.5 MW (0.8%), biomass 0.4% Coal
4,714
232.4 MW (0.8%), waste 118.5 MW, nuclear 100 MW, Biomass 16.3%
232
geothermal 4.3 MW and ocean 4.1 MW. Peat and fuel 0.8%
Wind
12,800
oil did not install any capacity in 2015. Hydro 44.2%
238
0.8%
During 2015, Member States decommissioned 8 GW Solar PV
8,500
of coal capacity, 4.3 GW of gas, 3.3 GW of fuel oil, 1.8 CSP
29.4%
370
GW of nuclear energy capacity, 518 MW of biomass 1.3%
and 281 MW of wind energy.

FIGURE 3: NEW INSTALLED AND DECOMMISSIONED POWER CAPACITY IN EU (MW) 

15,000
12,800

10,000 8,500

4,714
5,000
1,867
- 370 - 239 - 232 119 - 4 - 4 - - - 100 -
(281) (518)
(1,825)
(3,282)
-5,000 (4,254)

(8,051)
-10,000
Wind PV CSP Hydro Biomass Waste Geo- Ocean Peat Coal Gas Nuclear Fuel oil
thermal
New Decommissioned

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Renewable power capacity installations

In 2015, renewables installations accounted for a total FIGURE 4: 2015 SHARE OF NEW RENEWABLE POWER CAPACITY
of 22.3 GW, 77% of all new installed capacity in the INSTALLATIONS (MW). TOTAL 22,267.9 MW
EU. It was, the eighth year in a row where renewables
contributed over 55% of all additional power capacity Biomass Waste
232 119
in the EU. 1% 0.5%
Hydro Ocean
238 4
1.1% 0.01%
CSP Geothermal
370 4
1.7% 0.01%

Solar PV
8,500 Wind
38.2% 12,800
57.5%

Trends & cumulative installations

Renewable power capacity installations

In 2000, new renewable power capacity installations
totalled a mere 3.6 GW. Since 2010, annual renewable
capacity additions have been between 21 GW and 35
GW, six to ten times higher than in 2000.
The share of renewables in total new power capacity
additions has also surged. In 2000, the 3.6 GW
represented 22.4% of new power capacity installations,
increasing to 22 GW representing 77% in 2015.
443 GW of new power capacity has been installed in
the EU since 2000. Of this, 30% has been wind power
and 58% renewables.

FIGURE 5: ANNUAL INSTALLED CAPACITY (MW) AND RENEWABLE SHARE (%)

50,000

40,000

30,000

20,000
2015: 77% RES

10,000

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Peat Fuel oil Hydro PV Waste Gas Ocean

Geothermal CSP Nuclear Coal Wind Biomass

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Net changes in EU installed power capacity 1995-2015

Since 1995, the net growth of wind power (137 GW),
gas (120 GW) and solar PV (93 GW) coincided with the
net reduction in fuel oil (down 39 GW), coal (down 32
GW) and nuclear (down 2 GW). The other renewable
technologies (biomass, hydro, waste, CSP, geothermal
and ocean energies) have also been increasing their
installed capacity over the past decade, albeit more
slowly than wind and solar PV.
The EU’s power generation capacity continues to move
away from fuel oil, coal, nuclear and gas to a higher
share of wind, solar PV and other renewables. Since
2013, gas decommissioned more MW than what
it installed but still has the most overall installed
capacity.

FIGURE 6: NET ELECTRICITY GENERATING INSTALLATIONS IN THE EU, 1995-2015 (MW)

137,530
140,000
120,525
120,000
95,350
100,000

80,000

60,000

40,000

20,000
8,920 8,160 4,622 3,045 431 265 13
0

20,000 (11,808)

40,000 (32,580)
(39,580)
60,000
Wind Gas PV Hydro Biomass CSP Waste Geo- Peat Ocean Nuclear Coal Fuel oil
thermal

Total installed power capacity

Wind power’s share of total installed power capacity first renewable energy technology in capacity installed.
has increased six-fold since 2000, from 2.4% in Over the same period, renewables increased their
2000 to 15.6% in 2015, overtaking hydro as the third share from 24% of total power capacity in 2000 to
largest power generation capacity in the EU and the 44% in 2015.

FIGURE 7: EU POWER MIX 2000 (MW)  FIGURE 8: EU POWER MIX 2015 (MW)

Waste, 2,199, 0.4% Peat, 1,667, 0.3% CSP, 4,975, 0.5% Waste, 4,596, 0.5%
Biomass, 4,568, 0.8% Geothermal, 592, 0.1% Biomass, 12,140, 1.3% Peat, 1,808, 0.2%
Wind, 12,887, 2.4% Ocean, 240, 0.04% Fuel Oil, 33,660, 3.7% Geothermal, 819, 0.1%
Fuel Oil, 62,166, 11.4% Solar PV, 12, 0.02% Solar PV, 95,350, 10.5% Ocean, 253, 0.03%

Gas
Coal 191,960
133,220 21.1%
24.4%
Gas Nuclear
91,922 120,208
16.9% 13.2% Coal
159,219
Nuclear 17.5%
122,966 Hydro
Hydro
22.6% 141,073
112,719 Wind
15.5%
20.7% 141,579
15.6%

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A closer look at wind power installations
Total installed power capacity

Annual wind power installations in the EU have increased steadily over the past 15 years from 3.2 GW in 2000
to 12.8 GW in 2015, a CAGR of 9%.

FIGURE 9: ANNUAL WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN EU (GW)

14
12.8
12.1 12.1
12 11.4

10.3
9.9 9.8
10
9.0
8.5
8
7.2
6.5
5.9 5.8
6 5.5

4.4
4
3.2

0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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National breakdown of wind power installations

2015 showed important variations between countries
in their capacity additions. Germany led with over 6
GW newly installed, reflecting the traditional size and
strength of its wind energy market. Three factors
facilitated growth: effective policies, the connection of
large amounts of offshore capacity installed but not
grid-connected in 2014, and a desire by the industry
to complete installations before Germany moves to
market-based arrangements in 2017. Similarly, Polish
developers made use of existing policies and installed
over 1,200 MW before the new scheme applies in 2016.
By contrast, the lack of political visibility and
ineffective regulations led in some countries to
fewer installations in 2015 than in previous years.
In particular, Spain, which has been a very strong
market, saw new installations fall to zero as a result of
inadequate policies. The wind energy industry suffered
from changing regulations also in Romania. Stable
regulatory frameworks and visibility therefore remain
imperative to provide investors with certainty and
growing wind power in all parts of Europe.

FIGURE 10: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR NEW WIND ENERGY CAPACITY INSTALLED DURING 2015 (MW). TOTAL 12,800.2 MW

7,000

6,013
6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,266
1,073 975
1,000
615 586
379 323 295 274 224 217 172 145 132 76 1
23 11
0
Germany France Sweden Finland Italy Ireland Greece Portugal Romania Estonia
Poland UK Netherlands Austria Belgium Denmark Lithuania Croatia Cyprus

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Onshore and offshore annual markets

New offshore wind installations more than doubled in 2015 compared to 2014, with 3,034.5 MW of new gross
capacity grid-connected. Offshore wind power installations represented 24% of the annual EU wind energy market,
up from 13% in 2014.

FIGURE 11: ANNUAL ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS (MW)

12,000
1,175
1,447 3,035
1,567
10,892
10,000 582 10,591
883 9,900
9,706 866 9,766
318 9,006
8,632 373 8,877
8,000
8,115
93
90 7,097
170 90 6,454
6,000
276
5,743 5,749
51 5,186

4,000 4,377

2,000

0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Onshore Offshore

Cumulative wind power installations

A total of 141.6 GW is now installed in the European Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania and
Union due to a record growth of 9.7 % in 2015. Germany Sweden.
remains the EU country with the largest installed
capacity, followed by Spain, the UK, France and Italy. Four of the latter (Sweden, Denmark, Poland and
Eleven other EU countries have over 1 GW of installed Portugal), have more than 5 GW installed.
capacity: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece,

FIGURE 12: CUMULATIVE WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS IN THE EU (GW)

141.6
140
129.1
117.4
120
106.5
100 94.5
85.1
80 75.3
65.1
60 56.7
48.0
34.4 40.8
40
28.5
23.1
20 17.3
12.9

0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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Germany (44.9 GW) and Spain (23 GW) have the largest
cumulative installed wind energy capacity in Europe.
Together they represent 48% of total EU capacity. The UK,
France and Italy follow with 13.6 GW (9.6% of total EU
capacity), 10.4 GW (7.3%) and 9 GW (6.3%) respectively.
Thanks to this record year in annual installations,
Poland, with 5.1 GW (3.6% of cumulative capacity), is
now the seventh country per capacity installed, having
overtaken Denmark and Portugal.

FIGURE 13: EU MEMBER STATE MARKET SHARES FOR TOTAL INSTALLED CAPACITY (GW). TOTAL 141.6 GW

50

44.9
45

40

35

30

25
23

20

13.6
15

10.4 9
10
6
5.1 5.1 5.1 3.4
5
3 2.5 2.4 2.2 2.2
1 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0030.003
0
Germany UK Italy Poland Denmark Romania Austria Greece Bulgaria Croatia Estonia Cyprus Luxem- Slovakia
bourg
Spain France Sweden Portugal Netherlands Ireland Belgium Finland Lithuania Hungary Czech Latvia Slovenia
Republic

Wind power penetration

The wind energy capacity currently installed in the EU would produce in an average wind year 315 TWh of
electricity, enough to cover 11.4% of the EU’s total electricity consumption1.

Total EU Onshore Offshore Share of EU Share of EU Share of EU

electricity wind energy wind energy Wind energy consumption consumption consumption
production production production met by onshore met by offshore met by wind
consumption (TWh)
(TWh) (TWh) (TWh) wind (TWh) wind energy

2,770 274.5 40.6 315 9.9% 1.5% 11.4%

1
Wind energy penetration levels are calculated using average capacity factors onshore and offshore and Eurostat electricity con-
sumption figures (2013). Consequently, table 1 indicates the approximate share of consumption met by the installed wind energy
capacity at the end of 2015. The figure does not represent real wind energy production over a calendar year. The most recent data
(2013) for EU28 final energy consumption of electricity from Eurostat, is 2,770 TWh. Eurostat, online table code [nrg_105a],
extracted on 26 January 2016.

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Investment highlights: trends and developments in 2015

FIGURE 14: TOTAL ANNUAL INVESTMENTS IN WIND ENERGY 2010–2015. FIGURES INCLUDE INVESTMENTS IN NEW ASSETS (€ BN)

30

25

20 40%
30%
-23%
15
-8%
24%
10

-
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Onshore Wind Offshore Wind

2015 was a record year for investments in the wind generating assets increased by 6.3% in 2015, those
energy sector. Financial commitments in new assets in the offshore wind sector doubled compared to the
reached a total of €26.4 billion (bn), a 40% increase previous year. In total, 9.7 GW of new gross capacity
from 2014. While investments in new onshore wind was financed.

FIGURE 15: INVESTMENTS IN THE WIND ENERGY SECTOR IN 2015.

FIGURES INCLUDE INVESTMENTS IN NEW ASSETS (€ MILLION) FIGURE 16: CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN 2015 (€ MILLION)
Hydro Biogas
900 860
UK 12,598 2% 2%
Geothermal Biofuels
Germany 5,323 1,366 801
4% 2%
France 1,388
Biomass Other renewables
Finland 949 2,466 642
6% 2%
Belgium 918

Italy 915

Turkey 822

Poland 648 Offshore Wind

13,251
Sweden Solar PV 34%
557 5,872
15%
Ireland 513

Austria 483 Onshore Wind

Others 13,121
1,260 33%
- 2,000 6,000 10,000 14,000

The UK had the highest level of investments in 2015, 66.7% of the new financial commitments in 2015
attracting €12.6 bn for the construction of new onshore for renewable energies went to the wind power
and offshore wind farms. This accounts for 48% of the sector, followed by solar PV (15%), biomass (6%) and
total investments made in 2015. geothermal technologies (4%).

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