IRENA released 2022 Capacity Statistics : hydropower (almost) takes it all!

Overall, here are the main points of the full report (can be found here):

• Renewable Capacity raised by 257 GW in 2021 (+ 9.16% points compared to 2020;
• Hydropower now accounts for 40% of the total installed capacities;
• The biggest capacity increase in 2021 was for Solar (+19%), second was Wind (+13%);
• Renewable Generation capacities augmented across all regions of the World, more in Asia (+11.9%), North America (+9%), and Europe (+6.4%) : Asia now accounts for 48% of the total installed capacity, Europe 21% and North America 15%;
• Renewable share of total generation capacity was at 38.3% in 2021 (+1.7 %points compared to 2020)
• More than 4/5 of new electricity generating capacities come from renewables (see Graph below).

Source: IRENA Highlights, p. 3

All the relevant statistics from this report have been reported within our country analyses : Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. For these countries as well as others (Belgium, France, UK, etc.), we are currently updating the ‘Data’ section, under ‘Installed Capacity’.

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