According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the installed onshore wind power capacity in the Asia-Pacific region rose by 24.9 GW in 2018. The top three markets that led the growth were namely China (+21.2 GW), India (+2.2 GW) and Australia (549 MW).
Asia-Pacific dominated the 2018 global onshore wind capacity addition, as the Americas and the Africa-Middle East zones installed 11.9 GW and 0.9 GW of wind capacity, respectively. Looking forward, the GWEC predicts that the Asia-Pacific region is likely to add a further 145 GW of new capacity between 2019 and 2023.
GWEC predicts that China will remain the largest onshore market in the future. India would remain in the top countries as well, with potential new onshore wind capacity installations above 5 GW per year. More mature markets like Japan and South Korea will continue to grow but other markets are expected to bring new opportunities, in particular in South-East Asia such as Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines, where wind power is increasingly competitive compared to coal power.
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