Installed solar PV capacity
RecordSTO-E1SMQ63YRS-G33KD9E97H-KKWZSM
Africa · 2019
Installed solar PV capacity in Africa was about 5 billion watts in 2019 (IEA).
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- The rise of the African energy consumer
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
To date, a continent with the richest solar resources in the world has installed only around 5 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, less than 1% of the global total.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2019). World Energy Outlook 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2019. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E1SMQ63YRSG33KD9E97HKKWZSM
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "World Energy Outlook 2019." 2019, https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2019. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E1SMQ63YRSG33KD9E97HKKWZSM.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "World Energy Outlook 2019." 2019. https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2019. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E1SMQ63YRSG33KD9E97HKKWZSM.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2019installedkkwzsm, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {World Energy Outlook 2019}, year = {2019}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E1SMQ63YRSG33KD9E97HKKWZSM}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2019. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- World Energy Outlook 2019
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- The rise of the African energy consumer
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_E1SMQ63YRSG33KD9E97HKKWZSM