Renewables share gap with coal in power generation
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17%
Global · 2022
IEA projects renewables share gap with coal in power generation worldwide at 17% in 2022.
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Developing Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
While coal remains the largest source of electricity generation in 2022, renewables halve their gap with coal, down to 17% in 2022.
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- APA
- International Energy Agency. (2022). Market Report Series: Renewables 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FY0CAF3BXZHC2DSXC3RBRBXCJ8
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2022, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FY0CAF3BXZHC2DSXC3RBRBXCJ8.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2022. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FY0CAF3BXZHC2DSXC3RBRBXCJ8.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2022renewablesrbxcj8, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2017}, year = {2022}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_FY0CAF3BXZHC2DSXC3RBRBXCJ8}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Market Report Series: Renewables 2017
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Developing Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
- 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_FY0CAF3BXZHC2DSXC3RBRBXCJ8