Global Energy Monitor

San Francisco, CA–Global Energy Monitor today released two new tools for tracking the global transition to renewable energy: a wind power tracker covering wind farm phases of 10 megawatts (MW) or more, and a solar power tracker covering utility-scale solar PV farm phases of 20 MW or more (10 MW or more in Arabic-speaking countries). Combining government, corporate, and other public data, the two trackers provide project-level data to show the speed and extent to which countries are building out wind and solar power.

The Global Wind Power Tracker (GWPT) catalogs 13,263 operating utility-scale wind farm phases generating 681.4 GW in 144 countries, and an additional 5,235 prospective projects  that would generate 882.0 GW.

Countries with the most operating utility-scale wind project capacity are: 

  1. China (261.2 GW)
  2. United States (127.3 GW)
  3. Germany (39.6 GW)
  4. Spain (26.8 GW)
  5. India (23.7 GW)


The Global Solar Power Tracker (GSPT) catalogs 5,190 operating utility-scale solar farm phases generating 289.7 GW in 148 countries, and an additional 3,551 prospective projects that would generate 651.6 GW. Utility-scale solar accounts for roughly 65% of total global solar capacity with the remaining 35% being residential and commercial installations. The data include province-level pledges from China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, estimated for utility scale, to provide a more accurate picture of prospective solar build-out. Future releases of the Global Solar Power Tracker will expand the prospective data in China at the project level.

Countries with the most operating utility-scale solar project capacity are:

  1. China (130.3 GW)
  2. United States (43.4 GW)
  3. India (29.0 GW)
  4. Vietnam (11.3 GW)
  5. Mexico (10.5 GW)

Capturing the full extent of utility solar and wind built-out around the world is critical for measuring progress towards the energy transition. With open-access project-level data like these, we are now in a much stronger position to track how countries are stacking up against their own stated renewables goals. 

Ingrid Behrsin, Project Manager, Global Wind Power Tracker
Ingrid Behrsin

Contact:

Ingrid Behrsin, Project Manager, Global Wind Power Tracker, [email protected]
+ 1 (510) 499-8071

Kasandra O’Malia, Project Manager, Global Solar Power Tracker, [email protected] 

+ 1 (303) 802-7611