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China
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 2258.01577
HomeTech & BusinessTop 10 Countries/Areas by Installed Renewable Power Capacity (End-2025, IRENA 2026 H2 Data)
Top 10Updated October 19, 2026
Top 10 Countries/Areas by Installed Renewable Power Capacity (End-2025, IRENA 2026 H2 Data)
Countries and areas ranked by renewable power capacity at the end of 2025, using IRENA’s 2026 H2 data. Values are in GW. Installed capacity describes the scale of generating facilities and is a different measure from electricity produced over a year.
Top 3
- 1China
- 2United States
- 3India
China
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United States
2
India
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About this ranking
- Ranking type
- Data ranking
- Data as of
- December 31, 2025
- Last source review
- October 15, 2026
Use end-2025 total renewable installed electricity capacity from IRENASTAT’s 2026 H2 country-and-area table, including all grid-connection types, in descending order of the original capacity values. Divide MW by 1,000 for GW, preserving the source’s two-decimal MW precision. The table covers 224 countries and areas. Italy is tenth at 78,277.61 MW and Türkiye eleventh at 76,300.12 MW, with no tie. Saint Pierre and Miquelon’s renewable value is missing, not zero; its total installed capacity of just 26.20 MW cannot affect the top ten. Total renewable excludes separately listed pumped storage. Country-and-area rows should not simply be summed as a world total.
References: 3. Page edits do not imply that the underlying data is newer. AI assisted in producing this content; verification status is shown above.
Change history
- Clarified the introduction and summary with result highlights; rankings, values and data definitions are unchanged.
- The former list had no traceable source or data year and mixed technology descriptions without a consistent capacity measure. Rebuild it from IRENA’s 2026 H2 country/area table for end-2025 Total Renewable Electrical Installed Capacity, preserving source MW values and converting them to GW. Italy is tenth at 78.27761 GW; Türkiye is eleventh at 76.30012 GW. Norway is 40.80094 GW in the same table and is privately archived outside the Top 10. The former values have no recoverable source or method, so their provenance is unresolved rather than declared false. [corpus433:7b531cd7be6418b5aaa32327567eede251b137e5a536bb150f6b3d646cfcb140]
Interesting Facts & Summary
China leads at about 2,258.02 GW, roughly 4.8 times the United States’ 466.45 GW. India, Brazil and Germany follow in third through fifth, each above 200 GW. Italy is tenth at about 78.28 GW.
2
United States
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 466.4468
3
India
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 250.49844
4
Brazil
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 228.19651
5
Germany
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 200.9015
6
Japan
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 134.94888
7
Canada
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 110.3907
8
Spain
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 98.61389
9
France
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 83.84786
10
Italy
- Installed renewable power capacity (GW)
- 78.27761
| Rank | Country/area | Installed renewable power capacity (GW) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2258.01577 |
| 2 | United States | 466.4468 |
| 3 | India | 250.49844 |
| 4 | Brazil | 228.19651 |
| 5 | Germany | 200.9015 |
| 6 | Japan | 134.94888 |
| 7 | Canada | 110.3907 |
| 8 | Spain | 98.61389 |
| 9 | France | 83.84786 |
| 10 | Italy | 78.27761 |
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Sources
- IR1 · International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)Electricity statistics by Country/area, Technology, Data Type, Grid connection and Year
IRENA Renewable Energy Statistics 2026, Country_ELECSTAT_2026_H2_PX.px; table metadata updated 2026-09-28 17:56:28. POST query: Country/area=all; Technology=Total Renewable; Data Type=Electrical Installed Capacity (MW); Grid connection=All; Year=2025. Full 224-row JSON-stat2 response SHA-256 is in evidence/irena-candidates.json.
Accessed: 2026-10-15 - IR2 · International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)Renewable capacity statistics 2026
Publication page identifies the 2016–2025 coverage and defines renewable power capacity as maximum net generating capacity; for most records it reflects capacity installed and connected at year-end.
Accessed: 2026-10-15 - IR3 · Électricité de France (EDF), data.gouv.frNational registry of electricity production and storage installations — Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 registry; the public CSV has two active records, both non-renewable thermal, 21,000 kW and 5,200 kW. Downloaded CSV SHA-256 and row excerpt are recorded in evidence/irena-candidates.json.
Accessed: 2026-10-15
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