As Global Wind Capacity Hits Record 1,299 GW, a New Edition Maps the Cross-Border Deal Playbook
The Global Wind Energy Council's Global Wind Report 2026, published in April, confirms the sector's shift in scale: 165 GW of new wind capacity was installed in 2025, a 40% jump on 2024, pushing total global installed capacity to 1,299 GW across 28,395 turbines in 57 countries. Asia-Pacific accounted for 80% of new installations (131.8 GW, led by China's 120.5 GW), while offshore wind capacity grew 16% to reach 92.3 GW worldwide — evidence that project scale and cross-border investment are both accelerating at once.
Wind: Projects and Transactions, now in its second edition and edited by Munir Hassan of CMS London, is the practitioner reference built for exactly this environment. With turbine capacities now exceeding 15MW and projects routinely structured across multiple jurisdictions, the book works through the full transaction lifecycle — land agreements, consenting, revenue streams, construction and O&M contracts, project financing and M&A — before turning to dedicated regional chapters covering Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America and the United States.
That structure maps directly onto the deals the GWEC data describes: a developer financing an offshore project against the 92.3 GW installed base; in-house counsel at a utility structuring a power purchase agreement as onshore capacity grows 42% year-on-year; or a law firm advising an Asia-Pacific investor entering a market outside the 80% of installations concentrated in China, where the regional playbook differs sharply from European or US practice.
For energy and project finance law libraries, this is a title whose value compounds with the sector's growth curve — a comparative reference that lets researchers and practitioners benchmark deal structures across the six continents where wind capacity is now expanding simultaneously, rather than working from a single jurisdiction's precedents.
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Q&A
How much did global wind capacity grow in 2025?
The GWEC Global Wind Report 2026 recorded 165 GW of new installations in 2025, a 40% increase on 2024, bringing total global installed wind capacity to 1,299 GW.
Which regions are driving new wind energy investment?
Asia-Pacific accounted for 80% of 2025 installations (131.8 GW), led by China, while Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa each added smaller but growing shares — a pattern Wind: Projects and Transactions addresses through dedicated regional chapters.
What legal issues arise in cross-border wind energy transactions?
The book covers land agreements, consenting processes, revenue streams and power purchase agreements, construction and O&M contracts, project financing, and joint ventures and M&A, each analyzed both in general principle and by region.
Is offshore or onshore wind growing faster?
According to GWEC, onshore wind installations grew 42% in 2025 to 155.3 GW, while offshore wind grew 16% to reach a cumulative 92.3 GW — both trends covered in the book's transaction-lifecycle chapters.
Who wrote Wind: Projects and Transactions?
The second edition is edited by Munir Hassan of CMS London, with contributing chapters from energy lawyers at CMS, Norton Rose, Trinity International, Rajah & Tann, Minter Ellison and Machado Meyer.