Annual solar capacity additions

Over the past five years, annual solar capacity additions quadrupled to 425 GW, but annual manufacturing capacity is set for a sixfold increase to more than 1 100 GW, a level that – if deployed in full – would be very close to the amounts needed in the NZE Scenario.

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@misc{iea2023solar7cnyar, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Executive Summary – World Energy Outlook 2024}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_00YT7D3VGY674BSZD1Z67CNYAR}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2024/executive-summary. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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