Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will expand its capacity in Poland in response to strong demand for turbines in Europe, Reuters has reported, adding the ramp-up will serve mainly the German wind turbine market.
The ramp-up in capacity will involve adding a new production line at Vestas’ factory in Goleniow and hiring 300 more workers, the company said.
Germany is seen expanding its wind turbine capacity by 5.1 GW this year, after adding 2.2 GW in new capacity over the first half of 2025, Reuters noted in its report. The first-half figure represented a 67% increase on the year. The first-half additions were also the highest amount of new wind capacity in eight years. Still, the rebound in installations is still off track to reach the official targets, the German wind energy association said earlier this year.
Additionally, a total of 7.8 GW of new wind energy capacity was approved in Europe’s largest economy during the first half of 2025. That’s a record-high for approved capacity for the first half of any year and up by 55% compared to the first half of 2024.
Despite the jump in wind power installations, Germany still has a gap between the rate of capacity expansion and the legally mandated goals in the Renewable Energy Sources Act, the so-called EEG, the president of the wind industry association said in July. The targets in the Act will not be achievable until 2026 at the earliest, the lobby group also said at the time.
Meanwhile, this week, the head of one of Germany’s largest power utilities called for an end to subsidies for wind and solar power. “First priority for grid connection should go to whoever creates jobs,” Leonhard Birnbaum, chief executive of E.ON, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. “The costs for the fixed feed-in tariff for new solar power may look harmless per year,” the executive added. “But the subsidy often runs for 20 years, and that adds up to billions.”
By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com
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