Contents
- Renewable electricity share statistics in Europe: 2025 country shares
- Renewable electricity share statistics by renewable source in EU generation
- Renewable electricity share statistics in the global power mix
- Renewable electricity share statistics across world regions
- Renewable electricity share statistics and recent generation changes
- Sources
Renewable electricity share statistics in Europe: 2025 country shares
In 2025, renewable sources supplied 49.9% of gross electricity consumption in the European Union, according to provisional estimates. The comparable EU figure for 2024 was 47.5%. Eurostat describes the 2025 result as more than 2 percentage points above the previous year. These figures measure renewable electricity against gross electricity consumption, rather than renewable sources’ share of electricity generated. That denominator matters when comparing the EU result with global and regional generation shares later in this article. Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
The provisional country figures show a broad spread. Austria recorded 90.8%, Sweden 89.2%, and Denmark 77.7% of gross electricity consumption from renewables. Portugal stood at 65.6%, Greece at 60.9%, and Spain at 60.7%. At the lower end of the reported values, Malta recorded 11.2%, Czechia 19.2%, Luxembourg 23.3%, and Slovakia 24.1%. Every figure in this country comparison refers to 2025 and uses gross national electricity consumption as its denominator. Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
| EU or country | Renewable share of gross electricity consumption | Period |
|---|---|---|
| European Union | 49.9% | 2025, provisional |
| European Union | 47.5% | 2024 |
| Austria | 90.8% | 2025, provisional |
| Sweden | 89.2% | 2025, provisional |
| Denmark | 77.7% | 2025, provisional |
| Portugal | 65.6% | 2025, provisional |
| Greece | 60.9% | 2025, provisional |
| Spain | 60.7% | 2025, provisional |
| Slovakia | 24.1% | 2025, provisional |
| Luxembourg | 23.3% | 2025, provisional |
| Czechia | 19.2% | 2025, provisional |
| Malta | 11.2% | 2025, provisional |
Source for all table values: Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
The country values are useful for describing variation in renewable electricity’s contribution to consumption, but they should not be read as a like-for-like ranking of generation alone. Eurostat’s methodology defines the share using renewable electricity produced divided by gross national electricity consumption. The report also notes normalization for hydropower and wind, and excludes electricity produced by pumped storage using water that was pumped earlier. The 2025 figures are provisional early estimates, while detailed source-composition data are available only through 2024. Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
Renewable electricity share statistics by renewable source in EU generation
Eurostat’s detailed breakdown for 2024 describes the composition of EU renewable electricity generation. Wind supplied 38.0% of renewable generation and hydropower 26.4%. Solar provided 23.4%; solid biofuels contributed 5.8%; and other renewable sources accounted for 6.1%. The denominator for each percentage is total EU electricity generated from renewable sources, so these figures do not mean that each source supplied the same percentage of all EU electricity. Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
| Renewable source in EU electricity generation | Share of renewable generation, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Wind | 38.0% |
| Hydropower | 26.4% |
| Solar | 23.4% |
| Other renewable sources | 6.1% |
| Solid biofuels | 5.8% |
Source for all table values: Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
The figures provide a snapshot of the mix, while the solar observations also show how that mix has changed over a longer period. Solar photovoltaic power represented 1% of EU renewable electricity generation in 2008. In absolute generation terms, EU solar electricity rose from 7.4 TWh in 2008 to 304 TWh in 2024. Those are generation quantities in terawatt-hours, distinct from the source-share percentages above. The two types of measure answer different questions: the TWh values describe the amount of electricity generated, and the percentages describe solar’s place within renewable generation. Eurostat, Renewable energy statistics
Renewable electricity share statistics in the global power mix
Renewables supplied 34% of global electricity generation in 2025, up from 32% in 2024. The IEA also reports a 23% renewable share a decade earlier, in 2015. This is a generation-based global measure, not the gross-consumption measure used for the EU country figures. Taken together, the observations show a rising renewable share across the reported years, without implying a particular cause for that change. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
Wind and solar photovoltaic generation together accounted for 17% of global electricity generation in 2025. Their combined share was 15% in 2024 and about 5% in 2015. The IEA separately reports that renewables and nuclear together made up 43% of global electricity generation in 2025. That 43% is a broader low-emissions category, combining renewable sources with nuclear power; it should not be presented as the renewable share alone. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
| Global generation measure | Share | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Renewables | 34% | 2025 |
| Renewables | 32% | 2024 |
| Renewables | 23% | 2015 |
| Wind and solar PV combined | 17% | 2025 |
| Wind and solar PV combined | 15% | 2024 |
| Wind and solar PV combined | About 5% | 2015 |
| Renewables and nuclear combined | 43% | 2025 |
Source for all table values: IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
Renewable electricity share statistics across world regions
The IEA’s 2025 figures for economic groupings put the renewable share at 36% in advanced economies and 32% across emerging market and developing economies. For advanced economies, the report gives a 24% share in 2015 as a decade-earlier comparison. These figures use electricity generation as the denominator. They describe the two named economic groupings and should not be treated as interchangeable with individual country statistics or with a consumption-based measure. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
Among the reported regional and country examples, solar PV and wind reached 30% of EU electricity generation in 2025. In the United Kingdom, renewables supplied 55% of generation. China’s coal share was 55% in 2025, compared with 70% in 2015. India’s coal share was 71% in 2025, down from 74% in 2024 and 76% in 2015. Southeast Asia’s coal share was 48% in 2025, up from 37% a decade earlier. These coal observations describe the coal portion of generation, not renewable shares. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
Ember’s 2025 regional comparison reports that Asia generated 52% of its electricity from coal and 32% from renewables. The report characterizes Asia as the only region where coal still exceeded renewables. The two percentages refer to separate generation categories within the regional electricity mix; the renewable figure is not a consumption share. Read alongside the IEA’s economic-grouping figures, these observations illustrate why a global share cannot describe every region’s mix. Ember, Global Electricity Review 2026: 2025 in Review
Renewable electricity share statistics and recent generation changes
Global renewable electricity generation increased by around 8.5% in 2025 compared with 2024. The IEA says that pace was slower than the 9.6% increase recorded in 2024, while remaining much faster than the around 6% average annual growth over the previous decade. These are growth rates for renewable generation, not changes in renewables’ share of total electricity. The distinction matters because a generation growth rate and a mix share have different denominators. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply
The IEA reports that global solar PV generation rose by about 600 TWh in 2025, its largest-ever increase in generation in the report. About 55% of that increase took place in China. Ember’s annual generation series gives global solar electricity generation as 2,143 TWh in 2024 and 2,778 TWh in 2025. These level figures provide context for the scale of solar output; the increase and its geographic allocation are reported separately by the IEA. IEA, Global Energy Review 2026: Electricity supply; Ember, Global Electricity Review 2026: 2025 in Review
Wind generation increased by 205 TWh, or 8.2%, in 2025 compared with 2024. In 2024 compared with 2023, wind generation rose by 190 TWh, also 8.2%. The TWh amounts and percentage changes are paired observations for their respective periods; they do not establish why wind output changed. Ember, Global Electricity Review 2026: 2025 in Review
Demand and fossil generation provide additional context for the 2025 power mix. Ember reports that global electricity demand grew by 2.8%, or 849 TWh, in 2025. Demand growth was 4.3% in 2024, while the annual average increase over 2015–2024 was 2.7%. These are demand observations, not renewable generation growth rates. Ember, Global Electricity Review 2026: 2025 in Review
For 2025 compared with 2024, Ember reports a 38 TWh decline in global fossil generation, equal to 0.2%, and a 63 TWh decline in global coal generation, equal to 0.6%. These are changes in generation quantities and rates, rather than shares of the electricity mix. Keeping that distinction alongside renewable growth and demand statistics helps describe the reported changes without treating one measure as a direct substitute for another. Ember, Global Electricity Review 2026: 2025 in Review