Energy market in the fast lane
At the end of 2025, 9,433 megawatts (MW) of wind power were installed in Finland - distributed over 2,002 turbines. In 2025 alone, 1,023 MW were added. For comparison: In 2021, the total capacity was just under 3,200 MW. In less than five years, Finland has tripled its wind power inventory.
There is no state stimulus behind this dynamic: Since 2019, 70 percent of all new wind capacity in Finland has been built without subsidies - purely market-driven, financed through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) and spot market revenues. This makes the Finnish wind market structurally more robust and more independent than many other European markets.
Wind overtakes hydro power - a turning point
In 2024, wind power generated 19.8 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Finland - equivalent to 24 percent of total electricity consumption. As a result, wind overtakes hydropower and becomes the country’s second-largest source of electricity, behind nuclear power. In 2025, the share of wind continued to grow to over 26 percent - with almost 89 percent of all electricity coming from low-emission sources at the same time.
The technological quality of the expansion is particularly remarkable: In 2024, onshore turbines with an average rated output of 6.0 MW were installed in Finland - the EU-wide peak. This is made possible by the wide, sparsely populated areas in north-eastern Finland as well as the strong winds on the Bottnic Sea Coast, which can also be felt ten to twenty kilometres inland.
