Modern bioenergy share of renewable energy consumption
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Global · 2017
Modern bioenergy share of renewable energy consumption worldwide was 50% in 2017 (IEA).
Modern bioenergy share of renewable energy consumption: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- About this report
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Modern bioenergy (excluding the traditional use of biomass) was responsible for half of all renewable energy consumed in 2017 – it provided four times the contribution of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind combined.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2017). Market Report Series: Renewables 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_98YHQ79JHSGQ9ZPX2CKDQ1EDSF
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2018." 2017, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_98YHQ79JHSGQ9ZPX2CKDQ1EDSF.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2018." 2017. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_98YHQ79JHSGQ9ZPX2CKDQ1EDSF.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2017modernq1edsf, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2018}, year = {2017}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_98YHQ79JHSGQ9ZPX2CKDQ1EDSF}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. 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 2018
- Type
- Report
- Published
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- Locator
- About this report
- 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_98YHQ79JHSGQ9ZPX2CKDQ1EDSF