Nations ranked by 2015-2024 increase in wind-plus-solar generation, TWh.
Wind and solar power gains are ranked by nation and nation using same-source 2015 and 2024 electricity-generation endpoints in terawatt-hours. The chart uses ten rows and plots the increase in wind-plus-solar generation, with endpoint values retained as supporting context. China added 1,611 TWh of wind and solar generation between 2015 and 2024. The United States ranked second with a 526 TWh gain, and China’s increase was 32.05 times the United Kingdom’s tenth-ranked gain.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,611 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 2 | United States | 526 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 3 | India | 185 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 4 | Brazil | 158 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 5 | Germany | 97 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 6 | Japan | 68 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 7 | Australia | 65 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 8 | Spain | 57 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 9 | Turkey | 50 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 50 TWh | 2015 to 2024 |
Source 1: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
Dataset/table: Grapher dataset: solar-and-wind-power-generation
Date checked: 2026-05-23
Evidence: Supports the solar-plus-wind generation metric, terawatt-hour unit and Ember/Energy Institute source lineage.
Source 2: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
Dataset/table: Data on Energy by Our World in Data
Date checked: 2026-05-23
Evidence: Supports the 2015 and 2024 nation endpoint rows used to compute generation gains.
The comparison uses 2015 and 2024 endpoints from the same OWID energy dataset. The 2024 endpoint is used because it is the clean complete-year frame for a broad global comparison.
For each nation, 2015 solar electricity and wind electricity were added together, then the same was done for 2024. The plotted value is 2024 wind-plus-solar generation minus 2015 wind-plus-solar generation.
All rows use the same OWID energy dataset, same endpoint years and same terawatt-hour unit. The metric is source-attributed because the series is processed from Ember, Energy Institute and OWID source data.
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