The 2016 report on wind energy in the EU, published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission on Tuesday 28 March, shows that in 2015, the EU was global leader in terms both of wind energy capacity connected to the grid and offshore wind energy.
According to the JRC, global wind energy capacity stood at 430 gigawatts (GW) in 2015, more than doubling since 2010. Thanks to the rapid expansion of new facilities, China overtook the EU for the first time in terms of installed...