How wind power grew in Russia
Russia's wind history goes back to Soviet engineering. Soviet small-wind production peaked in 1955, at 9,142 machines from 44 factories. A 1987 government resolution ordered faster development and planned a 22 MW wind plant in Kalmykia, but its first 1 MW turbine was never completed for lack of money. In 2001 a 2.5 MW farm of ten 250 kW turbines was built at Anadyr in Chukotka, and since 2002 it has run alongside the town's heat and power plant.
Modern farms are built under state capacity contracts awarded by tender. Fortum's 35 MW Ulyanovsk farm, with Dongfang turbines, was commissioned around January 2018 and is paid €180 to €200/MWh for 15 years. In the 2017 tender, 1.65 GW of wind went to a Fortum and Rusnano fund (1,000 MW), Rosatom (360 MW) and Enel (291 MW). A 2020 government order set local-content targets for wind from 2025 to 2035 and requires rising equipment exports. Vestas, which made blades in Ulyanovsk from 2018, ended all its Russian activity on 31 January 2023.
On 1 December 2025 the System Operator counted 2,857.5 MW of contracted wind on the wholesale market. Wind supplied 0.6% of the 1,166 TWh the power system produced in 2025. In 2021 the government set a budget of 350 billion roubles, paid by electricity consumers, for renewables built from 2025 to 2035, including about 4 GW of wind.
Sources: Zenodo · REVE · IPP Journal · Normacs · Interfax · System Operator of the Unified Energy System · Neftegaz · Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Where Russia's power comes from, 2025
| Source | Share of electricity |
|---|---|
| Gas | 44.7% |
| Coal | 18.4% |
| Nuclear | 18.3% |
| Hydro | 16.7% |
| Other fossil fuels | 1.2% |
| Wind | 0.3% |
| Solar | 0.2% |
| Bioenergy | 0.1% |
Wind farms in Russia
We track 48 wind farms in Russia: 2.6 GW operating and 2.3 GW under construction, consented or planned. Each one's owners, turbines and status are in the Wind app.
Electricity data: Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0). Wind farms: national registers and Global Energy Monitor; see data sources.
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