Green Energy

The IEA releases a .csv file of global electricity data every month. It lags a bit due to its comprehensive nature, the latest data runs to November 2025. I maintain a dashboard on my website that updates the data every couple of months and looks at the trends.

The database doesn’t capture every country, Russia and North Korea are missing, but it is pretty comprehensive.

The first four plots show:

– Renewables dominate the growth in electricity consumption since 2016 and in the past 12 months;

– That’s not just because big countries are growing their renewables share, although they are. Perhaps the most important feature of the data is that every country is doing the same thing.