Forecast increase in annual renewable capacity additions versus prior record year
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70%
Global · 2030
IEA projects forecast increase in annual renewable capacity additions versus prior record year worldwide at 70% in 2030.
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Global renewables growth set to outpace current government goals for 2030
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
This implies that global renewable capacity additions will continue to increase every year, reaching almost 940 GW annually by 2030 – 70% more than the record level achieved last year.
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- APA
- International Energy Agency. (2030). 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_W22GRX1FP6ZE6KABN60E80JB5K
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Renewables 2024." 2030, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_W22GRX1FP6ZE6KABN60E80JB5K.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Renewables 2024." 2030. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024/executive-summary. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_W22GRX1FP6ZE6KABN60E80JB5K.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2030forecast80jb5k, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Executive summary – Renewables 2024}, year = {2030}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_W22GRX1FP6ZE6KABN60E80JB5K}, 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
- Global renewables growth set to outpace current government goals for 2030
- 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_W22GRX1FP6ZE6KABN60E80JB5K