New solar PV capacity additions
RecordSTO-WBS0SJHTAE-CZG2DVV9NS-8AN6KF
Global · 2016
New solar PV capacity additions worldwide were more than 74 gigawatts in 2016 (IEA).
New solar PV capacity additions: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Renewables accounted for almost two-thirds of net new power capacity
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Last year, new solar PV capacity around the world grew by 50%, reaching over 74 GW, with China accounting for almost half of this expansion.
Checked: the figure 74 gigawattsis stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2016). Market Report Series: Renewables 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WBS0SJHTAECZG2DVV9NS8AN6KF
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2016, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WBS0SJHTAECZG2DVV9NS8AN6KF.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2017." 2016. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2017. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WBS0SJHTAECZG2DVV9NS8AN6KF.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2016solar8an6kf, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2017}, year = {2016}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WBS0SJHTAECZG2DVV9NS8AN6KF}, 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
- Report
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Renewables accounted for almost two-thirds of net new power capacity
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_WBS0SJHTAECZG2DVV9NS8AN6KF