No wind farms in China? Trump claim torched by record year of new wind capacity, mostly in China

Global wind capacity additions hit a third-straight record year in 2025 with 169 gigawatts (GW) being brought online, with turbine supplies dominated by Chinese manufacturers who took 8 of the top 10 spots according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

BloombergNEF’s published its annual Global Wind Turbine Market Shares 2025 this week ranking the world’s top wind turbine suppliers, and China’s booming onshore wind sector ensured the country and its wind turbine suppliers dominated the year.

The 169 GW worth of new capacity brought online in 2025 was 38 per cent up on 2024, which was itself a record year, and mainly consisted of new onshore wind capacity, accounting for 95 per cent of all new wind additions. Only 8 GW of offshore wind was installed in 2025.

China led the way and became the first market to add over 100 GW in a single year – a statistic that underscores the wild inaccuracy of US president Donald Trump’s recent Davos claim, that “China makes almost all of the windmills… They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves.”

But Trump is correct on one count: Chinese turbine manufacturers continue to dominate the market share ranking, in 2025 occupying the top six spots in the global rankings and eight out of the top 10.

Goldwind maintained its position atop the pile, supplying 29.3 GW worth of turbines installed in 2025. Retaining its place in second, Envision supplied 20.9 GW including almost a quarter that were installed outside of mainland China. The top five were rounded out by Mingyang (18.9 GW), Windey (18.4 GW), and Sany and Dongfang Electric both with 13.5 GW.

“Thanks to stable long-term policy support, wind installations over the past decade have become increasingly concentrated in mainland China,” said Cristian Dinca, wind associate at BloombergNEF and lead author of the report. 

“Chinese manufacturers consistently top the global rankings. They benefitted particularly in 2025, as companies and provinces rushed to commission projects ahead of power market reforms and to meet targets set out in the Five-Year-Plan.” 

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas maintained its position as best-of-the-rest with 10.6 GW supplied, however China’s dominance ensured that it slipped to seventh, the first time it has been out of the top five since BNEF began publishing its rankings all the way back in 2013. Siemens Gamesa rounded out the top 10 as only the second non-Chinese firm in the rankings with 6.3 GW, though it managed to eke out Goldwind as the leading supplier for offshore wind turbines.

China’s wind turbine manufacturers continue to rely heavily on their home market, with domestic installations accounting for 93 per cent of all their added capacity in 2025. However, this is nevertheless a notable drop on the 99 per cent seen in 2024, highlighting the start of a push to expand their global reach.

“This moment marks the emergence of Chinese manufacturers as true global players, as their commissioned capacity abroad has increased eightfold over the last year,” said Oliver Metcalfe, head of wind research at BloombergNEF.

“Challenged by razor-thin margins at home, Chinese suppliers are leveraging lower-cost production and fast delivery to enter new markets and undercut established rivals across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.” 

New capacity additions outside of mainland China also increased in 2025, though only by 17 per cent over 2024, reaching 43 GW.

India emerged as the biggest wind market outside of mainland China for the first time in 2025, edging out the United States and Germany thanks to what BNEF describes as “complex auctions” which “typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind.”

“India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world.” said Siddharth Shetty, BNEF’s lead wind analyst for India.

“The sector is reaping the rewards of complex auctions, pioneered by India’s clean power auctioning agencies in 2018. And this momentum is not fading. We expect wind build to continue at similar levels through the end of this decade.”

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