Wind Watch
Analysis from our data on the world's wind farms: where the pipeline is heading, deep dives into countries and states, the market, manufacturers and new technology. Each comes with its charts and the table behind it, free to reuse with credit, and every figure is checked against published sources.
Britain has one electricity price. So it pays wind farms to switch off.
A time-lapse of one day, farm by farm: on 27 October 2026 Britain paid wind farms £7.15m to turn down 184 GWh, almost all of it in Scotland, because the lines south were full and one national price can't say so.
Wind Watch · November 2026 · New ZealandNew Zealand has more than 200 electricity prices. Britain has one.
New Zealand prices power at every point on its grid, every half hour. A time-lapse of one day: the South Island near NZ$10 a megawatt-hour for most of it while North Island points reached NZ$330, and what that means for where a wind farm connects.
Wind Watch · October 2026 · United StatesUS wind is having its best year since 2022. What happens after 2027 is the open question.
167 GW of wind made a tenth of US electricity last year. 7.2 GW has come online in 2026 so far, led by the 3.65 GW SunZia project; offshore, almost 1 GW is turning and 5 GW is being built, under federal pressure. A tax-credit deadline decides what follows.
Wind Watch · October 2026The world's wind pipeline is 2.3 times its fleet. Most of it is still on paper.
2,674 GW of wind is under construction, consented or planned worldwide, against 1,171 GW turning today. Only 310 GW is being built, more than two-thirds of it in China, and offshore the pipeline is almost twelve times the fleet.