Renewable share of electricity generation
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Global · 2020
IEA projected renewable share of electricity generation worldwide at 28% in 2020.
Renewable share of electricity generation: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- About this report
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Electricity output from renewables, particularly wind and solar PV, is expected to continue to set new records in 2021, expanding their market share to 29% from 28% in 2020.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2020). Electricity Market Report. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMQ
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Electricity Market Report." 2020, https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMQ.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Electricity Market Report." 2020. https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMQ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2020renewablembjpmq, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Electricity Market Report}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMQ}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Electricity Market Report
- Type
- Report
- Published
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- Locator
- About this report
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
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