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    France's grid-connected wind power capacity is close to 17 GW

    • Last Update: 2023-01-02
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    According to the latest statistics from the French government, France added 247 MW of new wind power capacity in the first quarter of 2020, bringing the cumulative domestic grid-connected wind power installed capacity to 16,897 MW
    .

    The data shows that the installed capacity of new wind power commissioned from January to March this year is down 10% from the first quarter of 2019, when wind farms were already in operation for 275 megawatts
    .
    In terms of total installed capacity in the first quarter, Haute-France led with 127 MW of new power plant capacity
    .

    Despite the year-on-year decline in new installations, cumulative installations of grid-connected wind power at the end of March were still 1% higher than in the same period last year, with nearly two-thirds coming from power plants between 8 MW and 12 MW, with the majority of about 16,803 MW of installed capacity located in mainland
    France.

    The country's wind farms generated about 14.
    5 TWh of electricity in the first quarter, up 44% year-on-year due to favorable weather conditions, with wind farms accounting for 10.
    8%
    of the country's electricity consumption.

    As of the end of March, France had 12.
    9 GW of wind power projects under construction, of which 3.
    03 GW of offshore plants were under construction, totaling 2.
    5 GW of projects
    that had already signed grid-connected contracts.

    According to the latest statistics from the French government, France added 247 MW of new wind power capacity in the first quarter of 2020, bringing the cumulative domestic grid-connected wind power installed capacity to 16,897 MW
    .

    Wind power

    The data shows that the installed capacity of new wind power commissioned from January to March this year is down 10% from the first quarter of 2019, when wind farms were already in operation for 275 megawatts
    .
    In terms of total installed capacity in the first quarter, Haute-France led with 127 MW of new power plant capacity
    .

    Despite the year-on-year decline in new installations, cumulative installations of grid-connected wind power at the end of March were still 1% higher than in the same period last year, with nearly two-thirds coming from power plants between 8 MW and 12 MW, with the majority of about 16,803 MW of installed capacity located in mainland
    France.

    The country's wind farms generated about 14.
    5 TWh of electricity in the first quarter, up 44% year-on-year due to favorable weather conditions, with wind farms accounting for 10.
    8%
    of the country's electricity consumption.

    As of the end of March, France had 12.
    9 GW of wind power projects under construction, of which 3.
    03 GW of offshore plants were under construction, totaling 2.
    5 GW of projects
    that had already signed grid-connected contracts.

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