Bioenergy share of electricity demand
RecordSTO-XQQG9TD208-1BGV2NEQRW-2ZXJ2W
Global · 2023
IEA projected bioenergy share of electricity demand worldwide at 3% in 2023.
Bioenergy share of electricity demand: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Renewables increasingly central to total energy consumption growth
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Hydropower remains the largest renewable source, meeting 16% of global electricity demand by 2023, followed by wind (6%), solar PV (4%), and bioenergy (3%).
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2023). Market Report Series: Renewables 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_XQQG9TD2081BGV2NEQRW2ZXJ2W
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2018." 2023, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_XQQG9TD2081BGV2NEQRW2ZXJ2W.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Market Report Series: Renewables 2018." 2023. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_XQQG9TD2081BGV2NEQRW2ZXJ2W.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2023bioenergy2zxj2w, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Market Report Series: Renewables 2018}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_XQQG9TD2081BGV2NEQRW2ZXJ2W}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2018. 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 2018
- Type
- Report
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Renewables increasingly central to total energy consumption growth
- 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_XQQG9TD2081BGV2NEQRW2ZXJ2W