Largest Wind Power Companies Research Summary
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The largest wind power company in the world is Siemens, with a revenue of $77.08 billion.
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As of 2022, the global wind power market size is $100.66 billion.
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There are currently 70,800 wind turbines across the U.S.
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Since 2005, there have been roughly 3,000 wind turbines built in the U.S. each year.
If you’ve noticed the recent abundance of wind farms across the U.S., you might not be surprised to learn that this renewable energy source produces up to 7% of the nation’s electricity.
But who designs, makes, installs, and runs those wind turbines? Here is a list of the top 15 wind power companies, ranked by their operating capacities in the U.S. in 2019, unless otherwise noted:
15 Largest Wind Power Companies in the World
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2022 Annual Revenue: $77.08 Billion
Munich, Germany
25,889.00 MWSiemens AG is a 173-year-old technology company that played a major role in electricity’s early years. Now, with approximately 293,000 employees around the globe, Siemens is one of the largest technology companies in the world.
Its offerings span the fields of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, sustainable energy, infrastructure, transportation, medical technology, finance, and more.
As far as wind power is concerned, Siemens is a pioneer, as in 1991, it created the world’s first offshore wind power plant.
Now the company continues to play a large part in both on and offshore wind power, installing wind farms across the globe, including one in Iowa for MidAmerican Energy, which is the largest order for onshore wind power in the world so far.
Siemens USA has 40,000 employees, serves customers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, and, as of 2019, has 229 wind projects in the U.S.
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
2022 Annual Revenue: $74.165 Billion
39,144.10 MW
GE Renewable Energy is a wind turbine supplier for both onshore and offshore wind farms.
It has installed over 49,000 wind turbines and enough renewable energy sources to produce 400 gigawatts (GW) of energy around the world. These include hydropower and hybrid energy projects in addition to wind turbines.
As of 2019, the company has 389 wind projects in the U.S. that have an operating capacity of 39,144.10 MW.
In addition to the wind turbines themselves, GE offers software that allows its customers to collect and analyze data from their wind assets and then optimize their turbines accordingly.
GE also produces battery energy storage solutions that customers can use to store and deliver the electricity produced by their wind turbines.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
2021 Annual Revenue: $33.42 Billion
Tokyo, Japan
3,963.55 MWMitsubishi Heavy Industries is a global organization that works in heavy equipment and machinery, engines, engineering, nuclear power, defense, and aviation, to name just a few of its business domains.
MHI and its subsidiaries have been producing commercial wind power generation equipment since 1982. In the U.S., its company Diamond WTG Engineering Services, Inc., services wind farms across the U.S. with maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and engineering and capabilities support.
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RWE Renewables Americas
Chicago, Illinois
2021 Annual Revenue: $24.946 Billion
4,300 MW (2021)
RWE Renewables bought out E.ON Climate and Renewables North America in 2019, and now operates 27 wind farms across the U.S.
RWE is involved in developing, constructing, and operating each of its projects.
One of its most recent installations is the Boiling Springs wind farm in northwest Oklahoma. It’s the company’s first project in the Southwest Power Pool and has 60 GE turbines that can generate 148.4 MW of power.
In addition to wind energy, RWE also works in solar energy and energy storage.
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2021 Annual Revenue: $15.6 Billion
Aarhus, Denmark
23,249.61 MWVestas designs, manufactures, installs, and services wind turbines in 83 countries. The company has over 25,000 employees around the world and has installed over 66,000 wind turbines.
Vestas started as a blacksmith shop in 1898, was officially founded in 1945, and shifted from producing household appliances to agricultural equipment, to intercoolers, to hydraulic cranes, and finally to wind turbines, which became its exclusive product in 1989.
Vestas is one of the largest wind turbine companies in the country. In the U.S. alone, Vestas has over 6,000 employees, over 23,000 MW installed, and four wind turbine manufacturing facilities, one of which is the largest of its kind in the world.
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Renewable Energy Systems Americas
2021 Annual Revenue: $3.2 Billion
3,301.72 MW
RES has had a presence in the U.S. since 1997 and in 2001 built a wind farm that was the world’s largest at that time.
Now, RES has 110 solar, wind, transmission, and energy storage projects in the country and over 1,000 miles of transmission line.
The majority of RES’s wind projects are in the Midwest, but it also has a few on both the east and west coasts.
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Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
2021 Annual Revenue: $2.133 Billion
6,276.84 MW
A part of the Iberdrola Group, Avangrid Renewables provides onshore and offshore wind power and solar power to its clients across 20 U.S. states, which range from utility companies to commercial and industrial organizations.
Avangrid also runs a 24/7 National Control Center that allows it to collect data and help its customers meet their renewable energy needs.
Avangrid’s parent company, Iberdrola, is based in Spain and is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world. It has over 35,000 employees in almost 40 different countries.
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2021 Annual Revenue: $692 Million
13,072.55 MW
NextEra Energy Resources is an American company that develops, constructs, and operates power generation facilities, electric transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, and energy storage facilities.
The company is a leader in this field and focuses on wind and solar energy as well as on natural gas. Its clients include governments, utility companies, schools, universities, and individual businesses. Overall, NextEra has about 5,000 employees.
In addition to its onsite and universal-scale solar projects, NextEra has installed over 9,800 wind turbines across the U.S. and Canada.
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Suzlon
2021 Annual Revenue: $403 Million
Pune, India
3,378.30 MWThrough its subsidiary Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation (SWECO), Suzlon has been operating in North America since 2001. Its more than 80 wind projects span Canada and 18 U.S. states.
Suzlon develops, manufactures, and installs its wind turbines in addition to offering post-sale services such as maintenance, safety services, and 24-hour monitoring.
Suzlon does this through the Suzlon Monitoring Center (SMC) in Chicago where its employees can view data from the 2,420 wind turbines in North America, South America, and Europe on behalf of their customers.
Suzlon also runs a wind turbine training center outside of Chicago, which features a fully operational wind turbine used exclusively for training — the first of its kind in North America.
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EDP Renewables North America LLC
Houston, Texas, U.S.A
2021 Annual Revenue: €1,758 Million
6,518.20 MW
Owned by EDP Renewables, a Spanish company, EDP Renewables North America operates 53 wind farms and eight solar parks in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
The company began in 1998 as Zilkha Renewable Energy and then in 2005, Goldman Sachs bought and renamed it Horizon Wind Energy.
In 2007, EDP Renewables decided to expand to North America and bought Horizon Wind Energy, renaming it EDP Renewables North America.
The company has about 675 employees and runs projects in 14 different U.S. states.
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EDF Renewables North America
San Diego, California, U.S.A.
2021 Annual Revenue: $366,561 Million
5,011.63 MW
EDF Renewables North America is a part of EDF Group, which is based in Paris and serves Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa through its subsidiaries.
EDF Renewables North America focuses on solar and wind power production and storage and has approximately 90 wind projects across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
The company plans, researches, develops, sells, constructs, and optimizes all of its projects.
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2021 Annual Revenue: $18.2 Million
3,172.15 MW
Apex Clean Energy was founded in 2009 and later that year purchased the wind energy assets of GGW Renewable Resources, the first in a long line of wind energy acquisitions.
Now, Apex Clean Energy has completed 15 wind power facilities and one solar power facility. It’s also financed 6,451 MW of renewable energy for other organizations.
This is all a part of the company’s mission to speed up the U.S.’s shift to clean energy.
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Invenergy LLC
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
2021 Annual Revenue: N/A
6,885.93 MW
Invenergy is a privately-owned American company that works with wind and solar energy, energy storage, natural gas, and water treatment.
The company is based in Chicago, but it also has locations in Canada, Europe, Japan, and Latin America.
Invenergy develops, installs, and oversees the operations of its projects, which include wind farms, solar power facilities, and water treatment and desalination plants.
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Enel Green Power North America
Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
2021 Annual Revenue: N/A
6,265.00 MW (2021)
Enel Green Power is present in 28 countries on five continents, including North America. Its U.S. operations work in 18 different states to provide hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
One of its major corporate partners is Kraft Sports Entertainment, which worked with Enel to power Gillette Stadium entirely with clean energy during the New England Patriots’ opening game in 2020.
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Pioneer Green Energy
2021 Annual Revenue: N/A
3,563.07 MW
Pioneer Green Energy develops both wind and solar energy facilities across the U.S. All of its wind projects are in Texas, as the company is based in Austin, but its solar facilities are in California and Maryland.
Some of its projects have been acquired by other companies on this list, and almost all of them have reached commercial operation.
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