Hydropower capacity growth

RecordSTO-FCS0H5EQMW-BSYK8MMEV4-DMY83G

28 billionwatts

Global · 2025

Hydropower capacity growth worldwide was 28 billion watts in 2025 (IHA).

Original source

Hydropower capacity growth: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher
IHA
Authority tier
T2 Official
Locator
The year of the water battery
Retrieved
16 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

Global hydropower capacity grew by 28 GW in 2025, including a record 11.7 GW of pumped storage.

Checked: the figure 28 billion wattsis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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APA

International Hydropower Association. (2025). World Hydropower Outlook 2026: Global Capacity & Data 2026 World Hydropower Outlook. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.hydropower.org/publications/2026-world-hydropower-outlook. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FCS0H5EQMWBSYK8MMEV4DMY83G

Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
MLA
International Hydropower Association. "World Hydropower Outlook 2026: Global Capacity & Data 2026 World Hydropower Outlook." 2025, https://www.hydropower.org/publications/2026-world-hydropower-outlook. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FCS0H5EQMWBSYK8MMEV4DMY83G.
Chicago
International Hydropower Association. "World Hydropower Outlook 2026: Global Capacity & Data 2026 World Hydropower Outlook." 2025. https://www.hydropower.org/publications/2026-world-hydropower-outlook. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FCS0H5EQMWBSYK8MMEV4DMY83G.
BibTeX
@misc{iha2025hydropowerdmy83g, author = {{International Hydropower Association}}, title = {World Hydropower Outlook 2026: Global Capacity \& Data 2026 World Hydropower Outlook}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FCS0H5EQMWBSYK8MMEV4DMY83G}, note = {Original source: https://www.hydropower.org/publications/2026-world-hydropower-outlook. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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Record: STO-FCS0H5EQMW-BSYK8MMEV4-DMY83G T2 Official

Primary source

Publisher
International Hydropower Association · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 2 · National and industry official
Report
World Hydropower Outlook 2026: Global Capacity & Data 2026 World Hydropower Outlook
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
The year of the water battery
Retrieved
16 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
17 September 2026
Last revision
17 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_FCS0H5EQMWBSYK8MMEV4DMY83G