Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation capacity, according to data by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
Furthermore, it explains that global solar capacity has been doubling every 3 years, and wind every 6 years, whereas fossil and nuclear capacity and generation have been almost static in recent years.
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Combined global per capita solar and wind capacity is more than double hydro capacity, and seven times larger than nuclear capacity.
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The leading countries for speed of deployment of solar and wind (new Watts per person per year averaged over 2022-24) are Lithuania, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia and Austria (Figure 2). Most of the leading countries are in Europe, along with Australia, Qatar, China and Chile.
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Solar PV capacity has been growing faster than all other electricity generation technologies combined since 2022. Since 2010, when it started publishing the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency has vastly underestimated the growth of solar and other renewable energy technologies.
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Wow, this is very different from the view media gave me.
I live in Sweden. The perspective from the media was, for me, that Sweden has stagnated in renewable energy, while the UK, Spain, and some other countries lead the way in Europe. And that while Europe was first in the renewable game, it is now in the developing countries that most action happens.
The data from this report shows that basically all of my claims from the previous paragraph are wrong.
No opinion here about the state of development, just amazement how misleading the media narrative have been for me.
Thanks for sharing!
There is a website that shows you how much CO2 a counrty produce in real time: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly
Keep in mind that only the date for the moment and no statistic. But sweden is almost always green. I you are able to see the CO2 from a source from last year or so.
Thanks, that is an amazing resource! You can see yearly emissions, which are statistics. And when you click on a country/region, you get the breakdown by energy source for the electricity grid.
Note: Living in Sweden, I am still Polish, and looking at this map is embarrassing to say the least…
I understand, that the data here is per capita, but I thought even per capita in Europe, and especially in Sweden, we install little compared to the rest of the world.
The three leading countries share borders with Russia or Belarus. Is this recognition of the security and resilience advantages of deploying millions of solar panels and thousands of wind turbines compared with a few large fossil and nuclear power stations?
