Hydropower installed capacity
STO-REC-STATA73GT0T2 National
1,469GW
Global · 2025
Hydropower installed capacity worldwide reached 1,469 GW in 2025 (IHA).
- Publisher
- IHA
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- Article introduction
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
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Global hydropower capacity reached 1,469 GW by the end of 2025, remaining the world’s largest source of renewable electricity.
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- International Hydropower Association. (2025). World Hydropower Outlook launches The year of the ‘water battery’. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.hydropower.org/news/year-of-the-water-battery-global-pumped-storage-capacity-surpasses-200-gw. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_A73GT02WC3S8K7AAM3MK2N23EH
- MLA
- International Hydropower Association. "World Hydropower Outlook launches The year of the ‘water battery’." 2025, https://www.hydropower.org/news/year-of-the-water-battery-global-pumped-storage-capacity-surpasses-200-gw. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_A73GT02WC3S8K7AAM3MK2N23EH.
- Chicago
- International Hydropower Association. "World Hydropower Outlook launches The year of the ‘water battery’." 2025. https://www.hydropower.org/news/year-of-the-water-battery-global-pumped-storage-capacity-surpasses-200-gw. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_A73GT02WC3S8K7AAM3MK2N23EH.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iha2025hydropower2n23eh, author = {{International Hydropower Association}}, title = {World Hydropower Outlook launches The year of the ‘water battery’}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_A73GT02WC3S8K7AAM3MK2N23EH}, note = {Original source: https://www.hydropower.org/news/year-of-the-water-battery-global-pumped-storage-capacity-surpasses-200-gw. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Hydropower Association · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- World Hydropower Outlook launches The year of the ‘water battery’
- Type
- Press release
- Published
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- Locator
- Article introduction
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
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- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_A73GT02WC3S8K7AAM3MK2N23EH