As of February 2025, several countries across the European Union had established ambitious renewable power targets. Estonia and Denmark plan to achieve almost *** percent renewable electricity generation by 2030. In contrast, Poland's renewable energy targets for that year were just over ** percent. According to the EU Renewable Energy Directive, countries in the European Union must reach a share of at least **** percent of renewables in their total energy consumption, although the directive encourages to aim for ** percent. Renewable energy pipeline in Europe The further deployment of renewable technologies in the region is essential to achieve these targets. As of February 2025, prospective wind energy projects in Europe’s renewable pipeline amounted to more than *** gigawatts, although from this, only ** megawatts were already in the construction stage. Northern Europe accounted for most of the wind energy planned capacity in the region. Regarding solar, Europe had a utility-scale prospective capacity of *** gigawatts, with Southern Europe accounting for most of planned installations.
Europe’s wind and solar outlook In the next years, wind and solar installations are forecast to more than double in the European Union. It is estimated that in 2030, the region’s solar capacity will amount to some *** gigawatts, growing from the *** gigawatts operating at the end of 2023. For wind, forecasts point to an installed capacity of roughly *** gigawatts by 2030. Approximately ** percent of this capacity will correspond to offshore installations.

The leading countries for installed renewable energy in 2024 were China, the United States, and Brazil. China was the leader in renewable energy installations, with a capacity of around 1,827 gigawatts. The U.S., in second place, had a capacity of around 428 gigawatts. Renewable energy is an important step in addressing climate change and mitigating the consequences of this phenomenon. Renewable energy capacity and productionRenewable power capacity is defined as the maximum generating capacity of installations that use renewable sources to generate electricity. The share of renewable energy in the world’s power production has increased in recent years, surpassing 30 percent in 2023. Renewable energy consumption varies from country to country. The leading countries for renewable energy consumption are China, the United States, and Canada.Renewable energy sourcesThere are various sources of renewable energy used globally, including bioenergy, solar energy, hydropower, and wind energy, to name a few. Globally, China and Brazil are the top two countries in terms of generating the most energy through hydropower. Regarding solar power, China, the United States, and Japan boast the highest installed capacities worldwide.

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Renewable sources include solar power, wind, hydro-electric, geothermal and – controversially – bioenergy (aka biomass or biofuel – mostly burning of wood pellets).

Why controversial? Because of differing definitions of ‘renewable’. In the technical definition, ‘renewable’ is any energy collected from resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. In the popular definition ‘renewable’ is equated with ‘sustainable’ and ‘eco-friendly’. Most renewables are sustainable, but some are not. A technically renewable source like biomass (wood pellets), for example, emits air pollution when incinerated and requires large amounts of water and land to produce.

Energy vs Electricity Generation When perusing stats on this topic, note the difference between renewable energy production and renewable electricity production. Energy production & consumption refers to a country’s total economic activity: creation of fuels, powering of industry, transportation and the generation of electricity (a subset of ‘energy’).

Why is there an ‘exclude hydropower’ button in the interactive? Hydroelectric power (dams) are an old and basically maxxed out renewable source. There are very few places on Earth now where a new hydroelectric dam could be installed. Filtering out hydro from the numbers gives a coarse snapshot of how well other renewables (particularly our friends solar and wind) may be fairing.

See what percentage of electricity is generated from renewable energy sources by country.

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Over 30% of the world’s electricity is now generated from renewable sources – and it’s increasing. (source) That’s beautiful news.

This dataset provides detailed information on the share of electricity production derived from renewable energy sources for various countries and regions in the year 2023. It includes the percentage of total electricity production generated from renewables such as wind, solar, hydro, and other renewable sources. This dataset is essential for understanding the global transition towards sustainable energy and helps in analyzing trends, making policy decisions, and conducting further research in the field of renewable energy.

Dataset Structure: - Entity: Name of the country or region. - Code: Standardized code representing the country or region (if available). - Year: The year the data pertains to, which is 2023 for this dataset. - Renewables - % electricity: The percentage of total electricity production that comes from renewable energy sources.

Example Row: | Entity | Code | Year | Renewables - % electricity | |---------------|----------------|------|----------------------------| | ASEAN (Ember) | | 2023 | 19.347086 |

This dataset is sourced from the Energy Data Explorer and provides a comprehensive view of the renewable energy landscape across different regions and countries.

Asia accounted for the highest share of renewable electricity generation worldwide in 2023, with about 4** petawatt hours of electricity generated. Europe ranked second, with renewable sources accounting for roughly *** petawatt hours of power output.

The average for 2022 based on 189 countries was 17.69 million kilowatts. The highest value was in China: 1156.13 million kilowatts and the lowest value was in Bermuda: 0 million kilowatts. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Global Electricity Production Analysis: Trends in Renewable Energy Overview This project analyzes global electricity production data, focusing on the growth and share of renewable energy sources over the past decade. The goal is to identify key trends and countries leading the transition to sustainable energy. Using SQL, the project uncovers insights into energy production patterns, highlighting the shift from traditional to renewable sources and the nations driving clean energy adoption.

Objectives Analyze the growth of renewable energy production over the past decade. Determine the share of energy sources in total electricity production by country. Identify countries with significant shifts toward renewable energy. Compare global trends in energy production. Highlight leading countries in clean energy transitions. Dataset The data for this project is sourced from the Kaggle dataset on electricity production. It includes information on energy generation from different sources such as coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, oil, wind, bioenergy, and other renewables across multiple years and countries.

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Countries with the Highest Growth in Renewable Energy Over the last decade, several countries have significantly increased their renewable electricity production. The analysis highlights nations that have made the most progress in wind, solar, hydro, and bioenergy generation.

Energy Source Distribution by Country For the most recent year in the dataset, the proportion of each energy source in total electricity production was analyzed. This provides insights into the reliance on traditional vs. renewable energy sources in different nations.

Year with the Highest Global Nuclear Energy Production The analysis identifies the year in which nuclear energy production peaked worldwide, showing trends in the use of nuclear power over time.

Countries with Declining Electricity Production Despite Global Growth While global electricity production has generally increased, some countries have experienced periods of decline. These cases were identified to understand the reasons behind such trends.

Countries with the Largest Variation in Natural Gas Production The study highlights the top five countries with the biggest difference between their minimum and maximum electricity production from natural gas, reflecting changes in energy policies and resources.

First Country to Generate Solar Energy The first country to produce electricity from solar energy and the year it happened were identified, showcasing early adoption of solar technology.

Countries Producing More Renewable Energy Than Coal in 2023 For the year 2023, countries where electricity production from renewable sources exceeded coal-based production were examined, demonstrating a shift towards cleaner energy.

Countries Producing Twice as Much Renewable Energy as Coal in the Last Decade The analysis identifies countries that, over the past 10 years, have generated at least twice as much electricity from renewable sources compared to coal.

Dominant Energy Source in Each Country (Coal vs. Renewables) For the entire dataset period (1965–2023), the dominant energy source in each country was determined, highlighting whether coal or renewable sources were more prevalent.

Countries Producing Over 60% of Their Electricity from Renewables in the Last Decade The analysis reveals nations where renewable energy sources accounted for more than 60% of total electricity production in the last 10 years.

Key Takeaways ✅ Renewable Energy Growth is Accelerating: Many countries have significantly increased their renewable energy production in the past decade, with wind and solar leading the transition.

✅ Coal Dependence is Declining, But Not Eliminated: Some countries still rely on coal, but a growing number have surpassed coal production with renewable sources.

✅ Global Nuclear Production Has Fluctuated: While nuclear power remains a key energy source, its production has varied due to policy changes and energy demand shifts.

✅ Energy Transitions Vary by Region: Developed nations are leading in renewables, while developing countries still face infrastructure and policy challenges in making the shift.

✅ The First Movers in Solar Energy: Early adopters of solar energy paved the way for broader adoption, demonstrating the potential of sustainable energy.

✅ Some Countries Have Faced Declines in Energy Production: Despite global growth in electricity production, certain nations have seen declines, indicating economic or policy-driven shifts.

✅ More Countries are Reaching 60%+ Renewable Share: Several nations now generate over 60% of their electricity from renewables, showing that large-scale clean energy transitions are achievable.

Findings & Conclusion Growth in Renewables: Many countries have made significant progress in increasing electric...

Among the different sources of renewable electricity generation, concentrating solar power and bioenergy wind were the most expensive in 2024, with an average cost of *** and *** cents per kilowatt-hour, respectively. In contrast, onshore wind electricity generation cost an average of *** cents per kilowatt-hour that year.

This API provides international data on renewable electricity capacity and electricity generation. Data organized by country. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

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The Renewable Energy World Wide dataset is a comprehensive collection of global renewable energy data from 1965 to 2022. The dataset includes information on hydropower, wind, solar, biofuel, and geothermal energy production from around the world.

Since the Industrial Revolution, the energy mix of most countries across the world has become dominated by fossil fuels. This has major implications for the global climate, as well as for human health. To reduce CO2 emissions and local air pollution, the world needs to rapidly shift towards low-carbon sources of energy – nuclear and renewable technologies. Renewable energy will play a key role in the decarbonization of our energy systems in the coming decades. But how rapidly is our production of renewable energy changing? What technologies look most promising in transforming our energy mix?

Data vastness of this dataset:

1. renewable-share-energy data.
2. modern-renewable-energy-consumption.
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15. share-electricity-solar
16. biofuel-production
17. installed-geothermal-capacity

The Global Renewable Energy and Indicators Dataset is a comprehensive resource designed for in-depth analysis and research in the field of renewable energy. This dataset includes detailed information on renewable energy production, socio-economic factors, and environmental indicators from around the world. Key features include:

1.Renewable Energy Data: Covers various types of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal energy, detailing their production (in GWh), installed capacity (in MW), and investments (in USD) across different countries and years.

2.Socio-Economic Indicators: Includes data on population, GDP, energy consumption, energy exports and imports, CO2 emissions, renewable energy jobs, government policies, R&D expenditure, and renewable energy targets.

3.Environmental Factors: Provides information on average annual temperature, annual rainfall, solar irradiance, wind speed, hydro potential, geothermal potential, and biomass availability.

4.Additional Features: Contains relevant features such as energy storage capacity, grid integration capability, electricity prices, energy subsidies, international aid for renewables, public awareness scores, energy efficiency programs, urbanization rate, industrialization rate, energy market liberalization, renewable energy patents, educational level, technology transfer agreements, renewable energy education programs, local manufacturing capacity, import tariffs, export incentives, natural disasters, political stability, corruption perception index, regulatory quality, rule of law, control of corruption, economic freedom index, ease of doing business, innovation index, number of research institutions, renewable energy conferences, renewable energy publications, energy sector workforce, proportion of energy from renewables, public-private partnerships, and regional renewable energy cooperation.

This dataset is ideal for analysts, researchers, and policymakers aiming to study trends, impacts, and strategies related to renewable energy development globally.

This table expresses the use of renewable energy as gross final consumption of energy. Figures are presented in an absolute way, as well as related to the total energy use in the Netherlands. The total gross final energy consumption in the Netherlands (the denominator used to calculate the percentage of renewable energy per ‘Energy sources and techniques’) can be found in the table as ‘Total, including non-renewables’ and Energy application ‘Total’. The gross final energy consumption for the energy applications ‘Electricity’ and ‘Heat’ are also available. With these figures the percentages of the different energy sources and applications can be calculated; these values are not available in this table. The gross final energy consumption for ‘Transport’ is not available because of the complexity to calculate this. More information on this can be found in the yearly publication ‘Hernieuwbare energie in Nederland’.

Renewable energy is energy from wind, hydro power, the sun, the earth, heat from outdoor air and biomass. This is energy from natural processes that is replenished constantly.

The figures are broken down into energy source/technique and into energy application (electricity, heat and transport).

This table focuses on the share of renewable energy according to the EU Renewable Energy Directive. Under this directive, countries can apply an administrative transfer by purchasing renewable energy from countries that have consumed more renewable energy than the agreed target. For 2020, the Netherlands has implemented such a transfer by purchasing renewable energy from Denmark. This transfer has been made visible in this table as a separate energy source/technique and two totals are included; a total with statistical transfer and a total without statistical transfer.

Figures for 2020 and before were calculated based on RED I; in accordance with Eurostat these figures will not be modified anymore. Inconsistencies with other tables undergoing updates may occur.

Data available from: 1990

Status of the figures: This table contains definite figures up to and including 2023, figures for 2024 are revised provisional.

Changes as of November 2025: Figures have been revised from 2021 – 2022 and updated for 2023 -2024 The revision concerns improved data on (bio)diesel oil consumption by mobile equipment in the construction and services sectors. This results in a shift of biodiesel consumption in energy application transport to energy application heating and cooling. These changes amount to a few PJ.

Changes as of July 2025: Compiling figures on solar electricity took more time than scheduled. Consequently, not all StatLine tables on energy contain the most recent 2024 data on production for solar electricity. This table contains the outdated data from June 2025. The most recent figures are 5 percent higher for 2024 solar electricity production. These figures are in these two tables (in Dutch): - StatLine - Zonnestroom; vermogen en vermogensklasse, bedrijven en woningen, regio - StatLine - Hernieuwbare energie; zonnestroom, windenergie, RES-regio Next update is scheduled in November 2025. From that moment all figures will be fully consistent again. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Changes as of june 2025: Figures for 2024 have been added.

Changes as of January 2025 Renewable cooling has been added as Energy source and technique from 2021 onwards, in accordance with RED II. Figures for 2020 and earlier follow RED I definitions, renewable cooling isn’t a part of these definitions.
The energy application “Heat” has been renamed to “Heating and cooling”, in accordance with RED II definitions. RED II is the current Renewable Energy Directive which entered into force in 2021

Changes as of November 15th 2024 Figures for 2021-2023 have been adjusted. 2022 is now definitive, 2023 stays revised provisional. Because of new insights for windmills regarding own electricity use and capacity, figures on 2021 have been revised.

Changes as of March 2024: Figures of the total energy applications of biogas, co-digestion of manure and other biogas have been restored for 2021 and 2022. The final energy consumption of non-compliant biogas (according to RED II) was wrongly included in the total final consumption of these types of biogas. Figures of total biogas, total biomass and total renewable energy were not influenced by this and therefore not adjusted.

When will new figures be published? Provisional figures on the gross final consumption of renewable energy in broad outlines for the previous year are published each year in June. Revised provisional figures for the previous year appear each year in June.

In November all figures on the consumption of renewable energy in the previous year will be published. These figures remain revised provisional, definite figures appear in November two years after the reporting year. Most important (expected) changes between revised provisional figures in November and definite figures a year later are the figures on solar photovoltaic energy. The figures on the share of total energy consumption in the Netherlands could also still be changed by the availability of adjusted figures on total energy consumption.

In recent years, scrutiny over the environmental impact of more traditional energy sources has translated into a rapid growth of renewables. The share of energy from renewable sources used in electricity generation worldwide has been rising annually, reaching roughly **** percent in 2024. Increasing capacity and production As renewable shares continue to grow, so does the installed capacity. Since 2010 the cumulative renewable energy capacity has risen from *** terawatts to *** terawatts in 2024. Renewable electricity production has also increased significantly, rising to *** petawatt hours in 2022. Despite this impressive and steady growth, the consumption of renewable energy still pales in comparison when compared to fossil fuel energy consumption. Consumption on the rise In the past two decades, global consumption of renewables has risen from just ** exajoules in 2000, to over ** exajoules in 2023. Globally, both China and the United States are the leading consumers of renewable energy, with a combined consumption of ** exajoules.

Bangladesh BD: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data was reported at 1.502 % in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.468 % for 2020. Bangladesh BD: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data is updated yearly, averaging 3.335 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2021, with 32 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.433 % in 1990 and a record low of 1.415 % in 2019. Bangladesh BD: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Environmental: Energy Production and Consumption. Renewable electricity is the share of electrity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.;IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser;Weighted average;

The average for 2021 based on 190 countries was 18681.01 million kWh. The highest value was in China: 1105539.1 million kWh and the lowest value was in Laos: -4489.8 million kWh. The indicator is available from 1990 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Sweden SE: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data was reported at 63.263 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 55.838 % for 2014. Sweden SE: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data is updated yearly, averaging 51.428 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2015, with 26 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 63.263 % in 2015 and a record low of 38.402 % in 1996. Sweden SE: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.World Bank: Energy Production and Consumption. Renewable electricity is the share of electrity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.; ; IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2018 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/; Weighted average; Restricted use: Please contact the International Energy Agency for third-party use of these data.

United States US: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data was reported at 13.229 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.954 % for 2014. United States US: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data is updated yearly, averaging 10.018 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2015, with 26 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.229 % in 2015 and a record low of 6.784 % in 2001. United States US: Renewable Electricity Output: % of Total Electricity Output data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: Energy Production and Consumption. Renewable electricity is the share of electrity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.; ; IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2018 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/; Weighted Average; Restricted use: Please contact the International Energy Agency for third-party use of these data.

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