Global Wind Energy Council

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) was established in early 2005 to provide a credible and representative forum for the entire wind energy sector at an international level.
GWEC’s mission is to ensure that wind power establishes itself as one of the world ’s leading energy sources, providing substantial environmental and economic benefits.
The main objective of is to promote the development and growth of wind energy around the world through:

• Policy development
  To participate in policy and regulatory forums that can assist the creation of frameworks for wind power development.
• Business leadership
  To provide the strategic and business leadership needed to engage external stakeholders.
• Global outreach
  To work with emerging markets to transfer know-how and strengthen the development of wind energy world-wide.
• Information and education
  To serve as a platform for providing quality information, expertise,analysis and data about wind energy.

GWEC brings together the major national, regional and continental associations representing the wind power sector, and already has the strong support of the leading international wind energy companies and institutions.

With a combined membership of over 1,500 organisations involved in hardware manufacture, project development, power generation, finance and consultancy, as well as researchers, academics and associations, the GWEC associations represent the entire wind energy community.

The members of GWEC operate in more than fifty countries and represent:

• Over 1,500 companies,organisations and institutions
• All the world ’s major wind turbine manufacturers
• 99% of the world ’s more than 60,000 MW of installed wind power capacity

GWEC membership includes representative Associations from the EU25 member states, USA, Canada, India, Japan, Australia, China, Russia, Africa, Asia, South America, New Zealand and many other countries.