Last year, Vestas was stripped of its leading position as the world’s top wind turbine supplier, as Chinese Goldwind becomes the first Chinese OEM to assume the top spot, writes Recharge News on data from BloombergNEF while warning about global slump in installation.

Vestas succeeded in installing 12.3GW new capacity in 2022, just under Goldwind’s 12.7GW performance. US GE came in third with 9.3GW.

Another Chinese manufacturer, Envision, came in fourth with its 8.3GW, while Spanish-German Siemens Gamesa and Chinese Mingyang share the fifth place at 6.8GW.

According to the tally, global offshore wind capacity took a 9.1GW dip, though Vestas can take pride in finishing first to that end, with 1.9GW. Once again, Siemens-Gamesa and Minyang share the second place at 1.4GW each.

Global turbine installation – which includes onshore wind farms – dipped from 99GW in 2021 to 86GW in 2022, and that should cause concern.

”Alarm bells should be ringing,” says BloombergNEF wind analyst Cristian Duca, pointing to the fact that the slump coincides with governments across the world pledging to raise their clean energy ambitions.

The goods news is that the US government’s plans for investments in the energy transition towards 2030 will increase global project capacity by 135GW.