Wind power in Hungary

The installed capacity of wind power in Hungary was 329 MW as of April 2011.^[1] Most of wind farms are in the Kisalföld region.

Wind farm near Mosonszolnok

As of 1 April 2011, there were 39 operational wind farms in Hungary, with 172 turbines and 329 MW of installed capacity. In 2016 Hungary banned the building of wind turbines within 12km of populated areas, accordingly no new turbines have been constructed since then.^[2]

Installed capacity

Main article: Wind power in the European Union

Year end	Nameplate capacity (MWp)	Growth
		MWp	% of usage
2002	1	1	-
2003	2	1	100%
2004	3	1	50%
2005	17	14	466.7%
2006	61	44	258.9%
2007	65	4	6.6%
2008	127	62	95.4%
2009	201	74	58.3%
2010	295	94	46.8%
2011	331	36	12.2%
2012	325	-6	-1.8%
2013	329	4	1.2%
2014	329	0	-
2015	329	0	-
2016	329	0	-
2017	329	0	-
IEA-PVPS,[3] WindPower[4]

Cumulative PV capacity in megawatt-peak (MW_p) since 2002

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Tenders

• The first tender was written in 2006 and it contains 330 MW capacity. Till March 16, 2006 it received 1138 MW capacity.^[5]
• In 2009 Hungary tendered for 410 MW of new wind capacity. It received 68 bids totalling 1100 MW capacity,^[6] but later the Hungarian Energy Office cancelled it.^[7]

List of wind farms

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Biggest Wind farms of Hungary.
Red: ≥30MW_p; Blue: 30MW-10MW_p.

List of the greatest wind farms (≥10MWp)
No.	Name	MWp	Opened	Number of turbines
1	Ács Wind Farm (I., II.)	74	2008-2011	37 (19+18)
2	Kisigmánd Wind Farm[8]	50	2009	25
3	Ikervár Wind Farm (I., II.)	34	2011	17 (4+13)
4	Bőny Wind Farm	25	2009-2010	13
5	Levél Wind Farm	24	2006-2008	12
6	Sopronkövesd Wind Farm	23	2008	8
7	Mosonmagyaróvár Wind Farm (I.-VIII.)	21.2	2003-2008	12
8	Bábolna Wind Farm	15	2010	7 (6+1)
9	Jánossomorja Wind Farm	10	2010
	Mosonszolnok Wind Farm (I., II.)	6	2002-2007	4

Biggest owners

• MVM Group:

More than 5 MWp: Felsőzsolca, Paks, Pécs, Visonta

Less than 5 MWp:

• MET Power: Százhalombatta
• Solar Markt: Csepreg, Kőszeg, Söjtör, Vép
• ALTEO Group: Balatonberény (7 MWp), Nagykőrös (7 MWp), Monor (4 MWp)

EU and Hungary Wind Energy Capacity (MW)[9][10][11][12]
No	Country	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
-	EU-27	105,696	93,957	84,074	74,767	64,712	56,517	48,069	40,511	34,383	28,599	23,159	17,315	12,887	9,678	6,453
17	Hungary	329	329	295	201	127	65	61	17	3	3	3	0	0	0	0

See also

• Hungary portal
• Weather portal
• Renewable energy portal

• Renewable energy in Hungary
• Energy in Hungary
• List of renewable energy topics by country
• Wind power in the European Union
• European Wind Energy Association
• Global Wind Energy Council