Vestas remained the world’s biggest turbine supplier in 2019 with an 18% market share, according to a newly published Global Wind Energy Council report.
GWEC’s second Supply Side Analysis report shows Siemens Gamesa moved into second place with 15.7% thanks to its offshore wind expansion and China’s Goldwind (13.2%) dropped one place to third.
In 2019 22,893 wind turbines were installed globally supplied by 33 suppliers and accounting for over 63GW of capacity, a new supply side record in terms of capacity for the industry, GWEC said.
Vestas benefited from its global diversification strategy with installations in more than 40 countries, the report added.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy doubled its offshore wind installation in 2019 and expanded its geographic coverage.
Goldwind fell one position despite the company increasing its annual installations by 19% in 2019 thanks to an “installation rush” in its home market, China.
The report also showed the upward trend in wind turbine size continues, with an average rated capacity for new turbines installed in 2019 surpassing 2.75MW, a 72% or 1.156kW increase from 2009.
GWEC said the trend demonstrated the “immense progress” the industry is making in technology innovation.
Of the top 15 wind turbine suppliers in 2019, 10 installed offshore wind turbines last year, accounting for 99.9% of the record 6.1GW of offshore wind capacity installed in 2019.
GWEC strategy director Feng Zhao said 2020 was forecasted to be another record breaking year, “however disruption of the global supply chain and delays on wind project execution has forced major stakeholders in the wind industry to withdraw their 2020 financial and production guidance as well as adjust their market outlook for the year”.
In 2019, eight Chinese turbine vendors were included in the top fifteen supplier ranking, but the top two spots were held by European suppliers Vestas and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.
“With the COVID-19 crisis now disrupting supply chains, manufacturing and project execution globally, it is likely that these rankings will shift in 2020 depending on how quickly countries and businesses can recover from the pandemic”, Zhao added.
Last year saw pure offshore wind turbine supplier MHI Vestas break the global top fifteen for the first time.
GE Renewable Energy and Envision remain in the fourth and fifth position respectively for global market share. Both benefitted from installation rushes in their home markets of US and China.
Mingyang and Nordex Acciona also benefited from these installation rushes, both moving up one position to sixth and seventh place respectively.
Enercon dropped by two positions to eight place in 2019, primarily due to a “significant decline” in installations in its home market of Germany.
Windey entered the top 10 for the first time ever as the supplier doubled its installations in China, moving up four positions to ninth place.
Chinese suppliers Dongfang, Sewind, CSIC Haizhuang and United Power along with German supplier Senvion and the Danish-Japanese joint venture MHI Vestas round out the top 15 wind turbine suppliers in 2019.