Comparing new renewable and conventional electricity capacity in selected countries
26Aug09
In the graphs below, I compare new renewable energy capacity with new conventional energy capacity for selected countries. The data comes from the EIA and is shown in GW for each year between 1980 and 2006. New renewable capacity (excluding conventional hydro) is shown in blue and new conventional capacity (including conventional hydro) is shown in red.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Australia
China
Brasil
Europe
World
Filed under: Renewables | 9 Comments
Tags: Australia, China, Energy, Europe, Germany, Renewable, Spain, Statistics, UK, US
Is conventional hydro included in the renewable capacity data? The Three Gorges Dam doesn’t seem to factor into the renewables line for China, though it has been generating power since 2003 and ramping up towards 22.5 GW capacity in 2011.
This was a really great read, I am very glad I came across your site.
Hi Tennant
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. As you’ve probably already figured out, conventional hydro is included in the conventional numbers, not the renewale numbers. Hence the three gorges is refelcted in the conventional sources (red line) in the graphs.
Best regards
Craig
Excellent posting! Now I am looking for the exact data for Germany, which I don’t find on the EIA website. Can you send me the direct weblink? Thanks!
I think I found the data for Germany at
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=2&pid=alltypes&aid=7&cid=GM,GC,GE,&syid=2003&eyid=2001&unit=MK
The title of your graphs should be better “capacity change” instead of “capacity”.
I am looking for the exact data for India. would you send me any direct weblink? Thanks!
Hi – you can get access to the data from the EIA site here
http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelrenewable.html
Cheers
Craig