Solar PV manufacturing capacity
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1,100 billionwatts
Global · 2024
IEA projects solar PV manufacturing capacity worldwide at 1,100 billion watts in 2024.
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Solar PV and wind manufacturing race continues, but dynamics are changing
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Global solar manufacturing capacity is expected to reach over 1 100 GW by the end of 2024, more than double projected PV demand.
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- International Energy Agency. (2024). Executive summary – Renewables 2024. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_MQF5P7CTQH3RDHTC479S056KB2
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Renewables 2024." 2024, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_MQF5P7CTQH3RDHTC479S056KB2.
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- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Renewables 2024." 2024. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_MQF5P7CTQH3RDHTC479S056KB2.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2024solar056kb2, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Executive summary – Renewables 2024}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_MQF5P7CTQH3RDHTC479S056KB2}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Executive summary – Renewables 2024
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Solar PV and wind manufacturing race continues, but dynamics are changing
- 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_MQF5P7CTQH3RDHTC479S056KB2