Share of renewables growth from market-based settings

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less than5%

Global · 2020

Share of renewables growth from market-based settings worldwide was less than 5% in 2020 (IEA).

Original source
Publisher
IEA
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector
Retrieved
16 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

The share of renewables’ growth coming from purely market-based settings – outside of policy programmes like auctions and feed-in tariffs – triples from less than 5% today to more than 15% through 2025.

International Energy Agency, Renewables 2020, Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector

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APA

International Energy Agency. (2020). Renewables 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BZ9PAQGG6P24VBC2VAS2VNW5GK

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MLA
International Energy Agency. "Renewables 2020." 2020, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BZ9PAQGG6P24VBC2VAS2VNW5GK.
Chicago
International Energy Agency. "Renewables 2020." 2020. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BZ9PAQGG6P24VBC2VAS2VNW5GK.
BibTeX
@misc{iea2020sharevnw5gk, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Renewables 2020}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BZ9PAQGG6P24VBC2VAS2VNW5GK}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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Primary source

Publisher
International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
Renewables 2020
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector
Retrieved
16 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
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Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
Checked on
27 September 2026
Last revision
27 September 2026
Permanent URL
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