Renewable electricity capacity growth forecast
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920gigawatts
Global · 2017–2022
IEA projects renewable electricity capacity growth forecast worldwide at 920 gigawatts in 2017–2022.
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- A bright future for renewables to 2022, solar PV entering a new era
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
This record performance in 2016 forms the bedrock of the IEA’s electricity forecast, which sees continued strong growth through 2022, with renewable electricity capacity forecast to expand by over 920 GW, an increase of 43%.
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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_PCAX0WZY03SS8EPTXV7BET7BPW
- 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_PCAX0WZY03SS8EPTXV7BET7BPW.
- 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_PCAX0WZY03SS8EPTXV7BET7BPW.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2022renewableet7bpw, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2017}, year = {2022}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_PCAX0WZY03SS8EPTXV7BET7BPW}, 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
- A bright future for renewables to 2022, solar PV entering a new era
- 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_PCAX0WZY03SS8EPTXV7BET7BPW