Solar Share of Global Electricity by Year 2010-2025

About This Dataset

Percentage of all electricity generated worldwide that came from solar power, each year since 2010, as published by Ember.

✨ AI Insight

Solar supplied 0.15% of global electricity in 2010 and 8.76% in 2025. The share crossed 1% in 2015, 3% in 2020 and 5% in 2023, so each successive percentage point is arriving faster than the last. The gap between this chart and the generation chart is worth noting: total world electricity demand kept rising over the same period, so solar had to grow substantially just to hold its share - the fact that the percentage still multiplied more than fifty times means solar grew far faster than demand.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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2025 leads with 9 in 2010-2025.

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Average value in 2010-2025: 3 · median: 2.

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Gap in 2010-2025: 2025 is 58.4× larger than 2010.