A record year for installations helped Germany power growth in onshore wind across Northern and Western Europe, figures from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables show. 

The analyst group’s Northern and Western Europe Onshore Wind Power Outlook showed Germany notched up 5.3 gigawatts of new capacity in 2017, helping to deliver a record year for onshore wind installations in the region.

The U.K. and France also saw significant capacity additions, said senior analyst Andrea Scassola during a webinar presenting the findings.

In Germany and the U.K. especially, and to a lesser extent Ireland, Finland and Denmark, developers rushed to complete projects before feed-in tariffs gave way to auction mechanisms.


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