Hydropower capacity growth
RecordSTO-FCS0H5EQMW-BSYK8MMEV4-DMY83G
Global · 2025
Hydropower capacity growth worldwide was 28 billion watts in 2025 (IHA).
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.
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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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Provenance and verification
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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
- —
- 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