Wind power in Asia has a total generating capacity of 10,600 MW. The strongest market is China

Wind power in China

At the end of 2010, wind power in the People's Republic of China accounted for 41.8 gigawatts of electricity generating capacity, and China has identified wind power as a key growth component of the country's economy. With its large land mass and long coastline, China has exceptional wind...

 with 12,210 MW of installed capacity. India

Wind power in India

The development of wind power in India began in the 1990s, and has significantly increased in the last few years. Although a relative newcomer to the wind industry compared with Denmark or the US, India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world...

 is the second largest market in Asia with an installed capacity of 9,587 MW.

China more than doubled its total wind power

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....

 capacity by installing 1,347 MW of wind energy in 2006, a 70% increase from the 2005 figure. This brings China up to 2,604 MW of capacity at the end of 2006, making it the sixth largest market world wide. The Chinese market was boosted by the country’s new Renewable Energy Law, which entered into force on 1 January 2006. China continued its rapid expansion of wind power capacity in 2007 and 2008, and now has a total of about 9000 MW of wind power, with 4,000 MW being installed in 2008 alone.

Other key countries include Japan

Wind power in Japan

Wind power in Japan generates a small but increasing proportion of the country's electricity, as the installed capacity has been growing in recent years. According to industry observers, the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents are pushing wind power to the forefront as a safer and more reliable...

(1,394 MW), Taiwan (188 MW), South Korea (173 MW) and the Philippines (25 MW).