Top wind and solar countries

 From EMBER

Many countries now get around a tenth of their electricity – the global average [up from 5% in 2005] – from wind and solar: India (9%), China (9.5%), Japan (10%), Brazil (11%), the US (12%) and Turkey (12%).

If you look at scale alone, China (728 TWh), the EU-27 (540 TWh) and the United States (469 TWh) stand out as the largest producers of wind and solar power. Together they are responsible for more than two-thirds of global generation. 

China has been scaling up rapidly, adding more wind and solar generation since 2015 (+503 TWh) than the United States’ total wind and solar generation in 2020.

Vietnam has seen rapid growth in wind and solar. It went from 0 to 14 TWh in just 3 years, generating 5% of its electricity from wind and solar in 2020.

Meanwhile, Chile and South Korea have quadrupled their wind and solar generation since 2015, and many other countries have tripled it, including Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey and Uruguay. 

Note that the chart excludes other renewables, such as hydro, geothermal, etc.