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Installed wind power capacity in France amounted to **** gigawatts in 2024, this was the peak from the period in consideration. A recent scenarios projected by WindEurope estimated France to become the second biggest country in terms of installed wind energy capacity by 2030 in Europe.
Wind power installations can be installed both onshore and offshore. The French onshore wind energy capacity has been estimated at **** gigawatts in 2023, meaning that the vast majority of the country's wind installations are onshore.  Â
Despite its vast Atlantic coastline, France still has a low wind power capacity, as opposed to countries like the United Kingdom or Ireland where the world’s biggest offshore windfarm was inaugurated in 2018. Despite this, the wind energy sector employed almost * people in France, which could increase with the development of offshore wind farms as a contribution to the extension of renewable energies.
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