The 2014 new additions represented 44% year-on-year growth and brought wind’s cumulative global capacity to 369.55GW – allowing GWEC to declare the sector “back on track” after faltering last year, when annual growth slowed.

China’s 23.35GW of new capacity, cited as a provisional figure by GWEC, dwarfed all others, leaving even other star performers such as Germany (5.3GW), the US (4.85GW)