Global Solar Electricity Generation by Year 2010-2025

About This Dataset

Worldwide electricity generation from solar power each year since 2010, in terawatt-hours, as published by Ember. Each bar is one calendar year of global output.

✨ AI Insight

Global solar generation grew from 32.2 TWh in 2010 to 2778.6 TWh in 2025, a factor of about 86 in fifteen years. The absolute increases are still accelerating: solar added roughly 636 TWh in the final year alone, more than the entire world generated from solar as recently as 2018 (575.2 TWh). The series crossed 1,000 TWh in 2021 and 2,000 TWh in 2024, so the most recent doubling took roughly three years, the same as the one before it.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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2025 leads with 2,779 in 2010-2025.

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Average value in 2010-2025: 791 · median: 510.

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Gap in 2010-2025: 2025 is 86.3× larger than 2010.