Numbers and facts
At the end of 2024, there were a total of 28,766 onshore wind turbines in Germany.
Source: FA Wind und Solar
745 new onshore wind turbines with a capacity of 3,251 MW were newly installed in 2024.
The total installed capacity of onshore wind energy is 63,461 MW.
Scource: FA Wind und Solar
In 2023, wind energy had again the largest share in German electricity production, ahead of brown coal and other energy sources.
The graph shows the gross electricity production from onshore and offshore wind energy. In 2023 they had a total share of about 32 % (net) in the German electricity production.
Source: Fraunhofer ISE
In 2016 160,200 people were employed in the wind industry. Of which 27,200 people in the field of offshore and 133,000 people in onshore wind energy. After 2016 we saw a significant decline, due to diminished expansion rates of new wind turbines.
Since 2019, employment numbers are slowly recovering again and stand at around 130.000 as of 2021.
Source: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), 2022