Share of renewables growth from market-based settings
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5%
Global · end of 2020
Share of renewables growth from market-based settings worldwide came in at 5% at end of 2020 (IEA).
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- Renewables 2020
- Locator
- Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The share of renewables’ growth coming from purely market-based settings – outside of policy programmes like auctions and feed-in tariffs – triples from less than 5% today to more than 15% through 2025.
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- APA
- International Energy Agency. (2020). Renewables 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y3B4BHMNCCYJF5F75QVPSVGHZH
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Renewables 2020." 2020, https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y3B4BHMNCCYJF5F75QVPSVGHZH.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Renewables 2020." 2020. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y3B4BHMNCCYJF5F75QVPSVGHZH.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2020sharesvghzh, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Renewables 2020}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_Y3B4BHMNCCYJF5F75QVPSVGHZH}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Renewables 2020
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector
- 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_Y3B4BHMNCCYJF5F75QVPSVGHZH