Renewable electricity generation growth rate
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7%
Global · 2020
IEA projects renewable electricity generation growth rate worldwide at 7% in 2020.
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Renewables 2020
- Locator
- Renewables’ resilience is driven by the electricity sector
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In sharp contrast to all other fuels, renewables used for generating electricity will grow by almost 7% in 2020.
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- 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_CDHV8ZMFSQGY7T5X9WT7P56P9H
- 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_CDHV8ZMFSQGY7T5X9WT7P56P9H.
- 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_CDHV8ZMFSQGY7T5X9WT7P56P9H.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2020renewablep56p9h, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Renewables 2020}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_CDHV8ZMFSQGY7T5X9WT7P56P9H}, 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
- —
- Locator
- Renewables’ resilience is driven by the electricity sector
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- 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_CDHV8ZMFSQGY7T5X9WT7P56P9H