Wind and hydropower share of power capacity increase
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Global · 2020
Wind and hydropower share of power capacity increase worldwide was nearly 90% in 2020 (IEA).
Wind and hydropower share of power capacity increase: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Renewables 2020
- Locator
- Renewable power additions defy Covid to set new record
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Higher additions of wind and hydropower are taking global renewable capacity additions to a new record this year, accounting for almost 90% of the increase in total power capacity worldwide.
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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_CK8RA9XZWRJCBSGJNAATJXGGXT
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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_CK8RA9XZWRJCBSGJNAATJXGGXT.
- 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_CK8RA9XZWRJCBSGJNAATJXGGXT.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2020windjxggxt, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Renewables 2020}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_CK8RA9XZWRJCBSGJNAATJXGGXT}, 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
- Report
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Renewable power additions defy Covid to set new record
- 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
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_CK8RA9XZWRJCBSGJNAATJXGGXT