Electricity – from other renewable sources

This entry measures the capacity of plants that generate electricity by using renewable energy sources other than hydroelectric (including, for example, wind, waves, solar, and geothermal), expressed as a share of the country's total generating capacity.

Country Comparison Ranking

• Afghanistan

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Albania

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Algeria

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• American Samoa

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Andorra

  15% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)

• Angola

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Antigua and Barbuda

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Argentina

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Armenia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Aruba

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Australia

  17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Austria

  31% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Azerbaijan

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bahamas, The

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bahrain

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bangladesh

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Barbados

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belarus

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belgium

  36% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belize

  22% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Benin

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bermuda

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
  
  note: the Tynes Bay Waste Treatment Facility turns waste to electric energy

• Bhutan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bolivia

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Botswana

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Brazil

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• British Virgin Islands

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Brunei

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bulgaria

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burkina Faso

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burma

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burundi

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cabo Verde

  21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cambodia

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cameroon

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Canada

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cayman Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Central African Republic

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Chad

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Chile

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• China

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Colombia

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Comoros

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Congo, Republic of the

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cook Islands

  21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Costa Rica

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cote d'Ivoire

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Croatia

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cuba

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cyprus

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Czechia

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Denmark

  54% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Djibouti

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Dominica

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Dominican Republic

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ecuador

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Egypt

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• El Salvador

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Equatorial Guinea

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Eritrea

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Estonia

  28% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Eswatini

  41% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ethiopia

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• European Union

  44% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)

• Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Faroe Islands

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Fiji

  27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Finland

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• France

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• French Polynesia

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gabon

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gambia, The

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Georgia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Germany

  52% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ghana

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gibraltar

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Greece

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Greenland

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Grenada

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guam

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guatemala

  28% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guinea

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guinea-Bissau

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guyana

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Haiti

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Honduras

  34% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Hong Kong

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Hungary

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iceland

  25% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• India

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Indonesia

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iran

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iraq

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ireland

  33% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Israel

  5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Italy

  32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Jamaica

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Japan

  20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Jordan

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kazakhstan

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kenya

  33% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kiribati

  27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Korea, North

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Korea, South

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kosovo

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kuwait

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kyrgyzstan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Laos

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Latvia

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lebanon

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lesotho

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Liberia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Libya

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lithuania

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Luxembourg

  67% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Macau

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Madagascar

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malawi

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malaysia

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Maldives

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mali

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malta

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Marshall Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mauritania

  20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mauritius

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mexico

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Micronesia, Federated States of

  3% of total installed capacity (2013 est.)

• Moldova

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mongolia

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Montenegro

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Montserrat

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Morocco

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mozambique

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Namibia

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nauru

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nepal

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Netherlands

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• New Caledonia

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• New Zealand

  20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nicaragua

  35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Niger

  5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nigeria

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Niue

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• North Macedonia

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Norway

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Oman

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Pakistan

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Panama

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Papua New Guinea

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Paraguay

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Peru

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Philippines

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Poland

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Portugal

  35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Puerto Rico

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Qatar

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Romania

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Russia

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Rwanda

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Lucia

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Samoa

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sao Tome and Principe

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saudi Arabia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Senegal

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Serbia

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Seychelles

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sierra Leone

  26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Singapore

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Slovakia

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Slovenia

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Solomon Islands

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Somalia

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• South Africa

  10% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• South Sudan

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Spain

  32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sri Lanka

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sudan

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Suriname

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sweden

  32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Switzerland

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Syria

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Taiwan

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tajikistan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tanzania

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Thailand

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Timor-Leste

  0% of total installed capacity (2018 est.)

• Togo

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tonga

  26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Trinidad and Tobago

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tunisia

  5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turkey

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turkmenistan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turks and Caicos Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Uganda

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ukraine

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United Arab Emirates

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United Kingdom

  39% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United States

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Uruguay

  42% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Uzbekistan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Vanuatu

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Venezuela

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Vietnam

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Virgin Islands

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• West Bank

  22% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• World

  14% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)

• Yemen

  21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Zambia

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Zimbabwe

  5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)