by Brianna Crandall — November 17, 2014—On November 5, IEA Wind (International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement for Co-operation in the Research, Development, and Deployment of Wind Energy Systems) issued the IEA Wind 2013 Annual Report , which finds that global wind energy capacity generates enough electricity to meet about 4% of the world’s electricity demand.
In 2013, five countries installed more than 1 gigawatt (GW): China (16.09 GW), Germany (3.36 GW), the United Kingdom (2.42 GW), Canada (1.60 GW), and the United States (1.09 GW), according to a summary from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
In the United States, wind energy accounted for nearly 4.1% of national electricity generation, was deployed in 40 states and territories, and represented 9.95% of new U.S. electricity generation capacity at the end of 2013.
In addition, nine countries increased capacity by more than 20%, with Finland boosting its capacity by 67%.
