Renewable electricity curtailment rate
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Global · 2024
Renewable electricity curtailment rate worldwide was about 10% in 2024 (IEA).
Renewable electricity curtailment rate: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Grid integration paragraph
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Recently, rates of curtailment – where renewable electricity generation isn’t put to use – have been increasing substantially, already reaching around 10% in several countries today.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2024). Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/news/massive-global-growth-of-renewables-to-2030-is-set-to-match-entire-power-capacity-of-major-economies-today-moving-world-closer-to-tripling-goal. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_VYBR5VAAYV2FY9AJ08PDGX03PG
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal." 2024, https://www.iea.org/news/massive-global-growth-of-renewables-to-2030-is-set-to-match-entire-power-capacity-of-major-economies-today-moving-world-closer-to-tripling-goal. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_VYBR5VAAYV2FY9AJ08PDGX03PG.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal." 2024. https://www.iea.org/news/massive-global-growth-of-renewables-to-2030-is-set-to-match-entire-power-capacity-of-major-economies-today-moving-world-closer-to-tripling-goal. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_VYBR5VAAYV2FY9AJ08PDGX03PG.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2024renewablegx03pg, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_VYBR5VAAYV2FY9AJ08PDGX03PG}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/news/massive-global-growth-of-renewables-to-2030-is-set-to-match-entire-power-capacity-of-major-economies-today-moving-world-closer-to-tripling-goal. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Grid integration paragraph
- 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
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_VYBR5VAAYV2FY9AJ08PDGX03PG