Canada’s wind installations fell sharply in 2017 to 340MW, down from 702MW in 2016 and 1.5GW the year before that, leaving the industry anxiously awaiting an expected demand boost in western Canada that could offset the recent market contraction in eastern provinces.

Canada ended the year with 12,239MW of installed capacity, according to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), giving it the world’s ninth largest installed base in a country of 36 million.