This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over 200 geographies.
You can find more about Ember's methodology in this document.
Retrieved on May 8, 2024 Retrieved fromThis is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Ember - Yearly Electricity Data (2024). The data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, Energy Institute, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics).
The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year.
Retrieved on June 20, 2024 Retrieved fromThis is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2024).
All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.
At the link below you can find a detailed description of the structure of our data pipeline, including links to all the code used to prepare data across Our World in Data.
To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by Our World in Data, please use the following citation:
“Data Page: Electricity generation from solar power”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser (2023) - “Energy”. Data adapted from Ember, Energy Institute. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption [online resource]
In-line citation If you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:
Ember (2024); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data