In the first six months of 2017, wind capacity increased of 6.1 gigawatts (4.8GW of onshore and 1.3GW of offshore), but the lack of long term political commitment might be a problem.
Wind power, last year, overtook coal and became the second largest power capacity, only behind natural gas, which still provides just under 200GW of European power supply. But new asset financing took a hit compared to a record six-month-period in 2016. The first half of 2017 saw €8.3bn pumped into wind power, down from the €14bn of the same period last year.