Year after year, the share of wind power in European electricity production is increasing. It reached 15% in 2019 according to the association of industry professionals, WindEurope, which draws its figures from Entso-E, the association of European electricity network operators. In 2018, wind energy provided 14% of current demand, and the previous year, 11.6%.







This average increase on the Old Continent masks very strong disparities between the Danish champion (where the wind supplied 48% of electricity in 2019) and the Slovak red lantern (0%). France, with 7%, is in 18th position.



Europe now has an installed capacity of 205 gigawatts (GW), the equivalent of 128 EPR-type nuclear reactors. Defenders of the atom always point out that these power comparisons have a limited value since a nuclear reactor and an intermittent wind turbine do not produce the same number of hours in the year.







