India claims title of biggest wind market outside mainland China for first time

Project developers brought 169 GW of wind turbines online across the world last year, 38% more than in 2024, marking a third straight year of record installations, according to BNEF’s latest sector analysis. Some 161 GW, or 95%, of global wind additions were onshore, while 8 GW was installed offshore. Mainland China’s onshore wind sector underpinned most of the growth in 2025, becoming the first market to add over 100 GW in a single year.  

Outside mainland China, new additions increased 17% year-on-year to 43 GW. ‘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,’ according to BNEF.  

‘India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world [after China],’ 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.’ India’s auctions typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind.

Meanwhile, Chinese brands dominated BNEF’s league table of the world’s main turbine suppliers, for the first time holding the top six places in its Global Wind Turbine Market Shares ranking (see Fig 1). Goldwind maintained its position as the world’s leading wind turbine supplier, installing 29.3 GW in 2025, 12% of which was installed outside mainland China. Envision retained second place with 20.9 GW, almost a quarter of which was outside mainland China. Mingyang (18.9 GW) and Windey (18.4 GW) followed, while Sany and Dongfang Electric rounded out the top six with around 13.5 GW each.

‘Thanks to stable long-term policy support, wind installations over the past decade have become increasingly concentrated in mainland China,’ commented Cristian Dinca, Wind Associate at BNEF 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, according to the report, with domestic installations accounting for 93% of all capacity added by these players in 2025. However, BNEF notes that 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 BNEF. ‘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.’

Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas retained its position as the largest supplier of commissioned projects outside mainland China. However, it slipped to seventh overall in 2025 (10.6 GW) in BNEF’s survey, the first time Vestas has been out of the top five since BNEF began publishing its rankings in 2013. The firm had the widest exposure of any turbine maker last year, commissioning projects in 28 markets, according to BNEF.

The wind unit of Germany’s Siemens Energy topped the offshore market for the second year in a row, edging out Chinese turbine manufacturer Goldwind, with Mingyang in third place. India’s Adani secured 15th place in the ranking.

Fig 1: Top 15 global wind turbine manufacturers in 2025, in GW

Note: SEWPG = Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group

Source: BloombergNEF 

Wind turbine firsts for Envision in the Philippines

China’s Envision Energy has reported that the first 8 MW wind turbine for the 64 MW Alabat wind project being developed by Alternergy Wind Holdings has been installed on Alabat Island in the Philippines. It is Envision’s first wind power project in the country. With a 182-metre rotor diameter, 105-metre hub height and 90-metre blade length, it is also the largest wind turbine to delivered by the company in international markets to date, says Envision.

‘This project marks several technological breakthroughs for Envision, including the deployment of our anti-typhoon turbine design, segmented tower installation [the turbine tower was divided into smaller segments for transportation] and the first direct barge delivery of wind turbines from China to an international market,’ commented Chou De Loh, Country Manager, Philippines at Envision Energy.

The turbine features integrated backup power systems compliant with international typhoon design standards and reinforced components across the blades, pitch and yaw systems, bearings and other structural elements. It is also equipped with control algorithms capable of boosting power output during high-wind typhoon events, while maintaining operational safety, reports the company.

The project reflects the Philippines’ broader ambition to increase renewable energy’s share in the national power mix to 35% by 2030 and 50% by 2040.  

According to the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy (2025), renewables had a 22% share of the 2024 power mix, making up 28.3 TWh of a total 129.9 TWh of power generation in the Philippines.  

Wind energy currently plays a relatively small role in the country’s energy mix, with wind contributing 1.3 TWh from 443 MW of installed wind turbine capacity in 2024, according to the Statistical Review, all of it onshore. However, the government is seeking to accelerate wind development, launching its first offshore wind auction programme earlier this month. The initial focus is on fixed-bottom offshore wind projects, with a target of deploying 3.3 GW of offshore capacity between 2028 and 2030.

UK government scraps tariffs on wind turbine components

Meanwhile, in the UK, the government has announced plans to remove or reduce import tariffs on 33 categories of goods used in the production of wind energy infrastructure from 1 April 2026.

The measure is intended to strengthen the UK’s offshore wind supply chain and lower costs for domestic manufacturers.

The tariff changes will operate through an authorised use system allowing companies ‘to pay reduced or zero customs duties on imported components, provided the goods are used for specific manufacturing purposes within a defined timeframe’.

Eligible items include materials and components used in the production of cables, rotors, rotor blades and auxiliary electrical systems used in wind turbines and substations.

Industry representatives welcomed the announcement as a practical step towards improving the economics of renewable energy projects.

‘This is a very positive move for the industry – it’s exactly the kind of practical policy change that will help to bring down the cost of clean energy projects while supporting domestic manufacturing,’ said Celestia Godbehere, Head of Offshore Wind at trade association RenewableUK.  

John Haw, CEO of Fidelity Energy, a power offtaker for large UK commercial and public sector customers, added: ‘Lower component costs do not compress power purchase agreement pricing in the short term. But they do improve the underlying economics of future build, which matters a great deal for the volumes of firm renewable capacity that need to come online over the next decade.’

The tariff changes follow a record-high 8.4 GW of offshore wind capacity secured earlier this year under the government’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 7 (AR7).