{"id": 997333, "name": "Capacity", "unit": "gigawatts", "createdAt": "2024-11-06T08:02:56.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-03-14T15:13:34.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2000-2023", "datasetId": 6784, "shortUnit": "GW", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "capacity", "catalogPath": "grapher/irena/2024-11-01/renewable_capacity_statistics_by_technology/renewable_capacity_statistics_by_technology#capacity", "descriptionShort": "Measured in gigawatts.", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "5482495224316738425", "metadataChecksum": "-8181565672646550745", "datasetName": "Renewable electricity capacity by technology", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2024-11-01", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "gigawatts", "shortUnit": "GW"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Installed capacity for different renewable technologies"}, "descriptionKey": ["Bioenergy (total): Total bioenergy (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts. This includes biogas, liquid biofuels, solid biofuels, and renewable municipal waste.", "Biogas: Biogas (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Concentrated solar power: Concentrated solar power (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Geothermal: Total geothermal (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Hydropower: Hydropower (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Hydropower (total): Total hydropower (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, including pumped storage, measured in megawatts. This includes mixed hydro plans.", "Liquid biofuels: Liquid biofuels (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Marine: Marine (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Mixed hydro plants: Mixed hydro plants (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Offshore wind: Offshore wind (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Onshore wind: Onshore wind (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Pumped storage: Pumped storage (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Renewable municipal waste: Renewable municipal waste (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "All renewables (total): Total renewable (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts. This includes bioenergy, geothermal,hydropower (excluding pumped storage), solar, wind, and marine energy.", "Solar (total): Total solar (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts. This includes solar photovoltaic and concentrated solar power.", "Solar photovoltaic: Solar photovoltaic (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Solar photovoltaic (off-grid): Solar photovoltaic (off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Solid biofuels: Solid biofuels (on-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts.", "Wind (total): Total wind (on- and off-grid) electricity installed capacity, measured in megawatts. This includes onshore and offshore wind."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 370730, "name": "All renewables (total)", "code": null}, {"id": 370724, "name": "Bioenergy (total)", "code": null}, {"id": 347109, "name": "Biogas", "code": null}, {"id": 347117, "name": "Concentrated solar power", "code": null}, {"id": 29042, "name": "Geothermal", "code": null}, {"id": 29037, "name": "Hydropower", "code": null}, {"id": 370729, "name": "Hydropower (total)", "code": null}, {"id": 347110, "name": "Liquid biofuels", "code": null}, {"id": 29038, "name": "Marine", "code": null}, {"id": 370727, "name": "Mixed hydro plants", "code": null}, {"id": 95297, "name": "Offshore wind", "code": null}, {"id": 95296, "name": "Onshore wind", "code": null}, {"id": 370731, "name": "Pumped storage", "code": null}, {"id": 355978, "name": "Renewable municipal waste", "code": null}, {"id": 370726, "name": "Solar (total)", "code": null}, {"id": 347121, "name": "Solar photovoltaic", "code": null}, {"id": 370728, "name": "Solar photovoltaic (off-grid)", "code": null}, {"id": 370732, "name": "Solid biofuels", "code": null}, {"id": 370725, "name": "Wind (total)", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 1932, "title": "Renewable Capacity Statistics", "description": "The renewable power capacity data represents the maximum net generating capacity of power plants and other installations that use renewable energy sources to produce electricity. For most countries and technologies, the data reflects the capacity installed and connected at the end of the calendar year. The data is presented in megawatts (MW) rounded to the nearest one megawatt, with figures between zero and 0.5MW shown as a 0. The data has been obtained from a variety of sources, including: the IRENA questionnaire; official statistics; industry association reports; and other reports and news articles.\n\nSome technologies include others, following this schema:\n\n- Total renewable capacity (on-grid and off-grid)\n  - Hydropower\n    - Renewable hydropower (including mixed plants)\n    - Pumped storage (note that this is included in total hydropower capacity, but not in total renewable capacity)\n  - Marine energy\n  - Wind energy\n    - Onshore wind energy\n    - Offshore wind energy\n  - Solar energy\n    - Solar photovoltaic\n    - Concentrated solar power\n  - Bioenergy\n    - Solid biofuels and renewable waste\n      - Renewable municipal waste\n      - Bagasse\n      - Other solid biofuels\n    - Liquid biofuels\n    - Biogas\n  - Geothermal\n- Total off-grid renewable capacity\n  - Off-grid hydropower\n  - Off-grid solar photovoltaic\n  - Other off-grid renewable energy", "producer": "IRENA", "citationFull": "IRENA - Renewable capacity statistics 2024. International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi (2024).", "attributionShort": "IRENA", "urlMain": "https://www.irena.org/Publications/2024/Mar/Renewable-capacity-statistics-2024", "urlDownload": "https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2024/Mar/IRENA_Stats_Extract_%202024_H1_V1.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2024-11-01", "datePublished": "2024-03-01", "license": {"url": "https://www.irena.org/Publications/2024/Mar/Renewable-capacity-statistics-2024", "name": "\u00a9IRENA 2024"}}]}