Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)

Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels. Limitations and exceptions: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable. Statistical concept and methodology: Electricity production from renewable sources (% of total) is the share of electricity produced by geothermal, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, tide, wind, industrial waste, municipal waste, primary solid biofuels, biogases, biogasoline, biodiesels, other liquid biofuels, nonspecified primary biofuels and waste, and charcoal in total electricity production which is the total number of GWh generated by power plants separated into electricity plants and CHP plants. Hydropower is excluded. The International Energy Agency (IEA) compiles data on energy inputs used to generate electricity. IEA data for countries that are not members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are based on national energy data adjusted to conform to annual questionnaires completed by OECD member governments. In addition, estimates are sometimes made to complete major aggregates from which key data are missing, and adjustments are made to compensate for differences in definitions. The IEA makes these estimates in consultation with national statistical offices, oil companies, electric utilities, and national energy experts.
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The World Bank
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
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63
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)
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1970
1971 1.45919466
1972 1.31535703
1973 1.40781138
1974 1.50861489
1975 1.68449861
1976 1.79090006
1977 1.76024678
1978 1.76922701
1979 1.84260584
1980 1.66490718
1981 1.75108435
1982 1.92408164
1983 2.06866172
1984 1.88341916
1985 1.80598902
1986 2.10031955
1987 2.3157449
1988 2.24734313
1989 2.22657606
1990 2.41653439
1991 2.62254825
1992 3.03529281
1993 2.86191314
1994 2.74659692
1995 2.711017
1996 2.6903798
1997 2.60272415
1998 2.4955885
1999 2.5624341
2000 2.50382278
2001 2.77526399
2002 2.87944762
2003 3.01226181
2004 3.04991154
2005 3.21095105
2006 3.1648896
2007 3.53480894
2008 3.4148669
2009 3.74119575
2010 4.70644956
2011 4.6199414
2012 5.19088949
2013 5.8384794
2014 6.90213518
2015 8.09514349
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)

Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels. Limitations and exceptions: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable. Statistical concept and methodology: Electricity production from renewable sources (% of total) is the share of electricity produced by geothermal, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, tide, wind, industrial waste, municipal waste, primary solid biofuels, biogases, biogasoline, biodiesels, other liquid biofuels, nonspecified primary biofuels and waste, and charcoal in total electricity production which is the total number of GWh generated by power plants separated into electricity plants and CHP plants. Hydropower is excluded. The International Energy Agency (IEA) compiles data on energy inputs used to generate electricity. IEA data for countries that are not members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are based on national energy data adjusted to conform to annual questionnaires completed by OECD member governments. In addition, estimates are sometimes made to complete major aggregates from which key data are missing, and adjustments are made to compensate for differences in definitions. The IEA makes these estimates in consultation with national statistical offices, oil companies, electric utilities, and national energy experts.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source