China Solar Electricity Generation by Year 2010-2025

About This Dataset

Electricity generated from solar power in China each year since 2010, in terawatt-hours, as published by Ember. Each bar is one calendar year.

✨ AI Insight

China generated 0.7 TWh of solar electricity in 2010 and 1174.9 TWh in 2025. Growth was not steady: output nearly tripled between 2013 and 2014, slowed to under 20% in 2020, then reaccelerated sharply, adding 336 TWh in the most recent year - more than China's entire solar output as late as 2019 (224 TWh). That single-year addition is larger than the total 2024 solar generation of any other country in the world, including the United States at 304 TWh.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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2025 leads with 1,175 in 2010-2025.

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Average value in 2010-2025: 267 · median: 147.

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Gap in 2010-2025: 2025 is 1678.4× larger than 2010.