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The ten largest wind farms “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç Intelligence has identified as coming fully online in June all have a capacity of 100MW or more and are all onshore wind projects.

Global capacity reached 641GW by the end of June, according to “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç Intelligence, the research and data division of “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç — an increase of 63GW in the preceding 12 months.

In a bumper month of commissioning, five 100MW-plus wind farms were added to the grid in the US, meaning those projects accounted for 1,254MW of the roughlyÌý4GW brought online globally last month.

The largest project coming online last month was the 118-turbine 419MW Mesquite Star Ìýin Texas, developed by Clearway Energy with turbines supplied by Siemens Gamesa. Another Lone Star state wind farm that came online last month was the RES Group’s 180MW Heart of Texas Ìýproject comprising 64 GE turbines.

Outside of the US the next largest wind farm to come online was Voltalia's 163MW Ventos da Serra do Mel 1 (Serra Branca Complex) Ìýin BrazilÌýfollowed by the Guangdong No.2 Hydropower Engineering Bureau’s 60MW Dabu I Ìý&Ìý120MW Dabu II Ìýcluster in ChinaÌý

Meanwhile Fortum and Rusano’s 197.6MW Gukovskaya aka Vtoroy Ìýwind project in Rostov Oblast in Russia, near the Ukraine border, brought up the rear of the WPI’s top ten projects.

Analysts have warned that Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains and construction process, but all of these projects were finally commissioned during the coronavirus pandemic.