Total solar PV capacity forecast
RecordSTO-3ZPW8DFW98-6YV60SNEPS-GG0XQR
Global · 2022
IEA projected total solar PV capacity worldwide at 740 gigawatts in 2022.
Total solar PV capacity forecast: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- China is the undisputed renewable growth leader
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In the Renewables 2017 main case forecast, total solar PV capacity around the world reaches 740 GW by 2022 – more than the combined total power capacities of India and Japan today.
Checked: the figure 740 gigawattsis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2022). Market Report Series: Renewables 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_3ZPW8DFW986YV60SNEPSGG0XQR
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2022, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_3ZPW8DFW986YV60SNEPSGG0XQR.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2022. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_3ZPW8DFW986YV60SNEPSGG0XQR.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2022solargg0xqr, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2017}, year = {2022}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_3ZPW8DFW986YV60SNEPSGG0XQR}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Market Report Series: Renewables 2017
- Type
- Report
- Published
- —
- Locator
- China is the undisputed renewable growth leader
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_3ZPW8DFW986YV60SNEPSGG0XQR