Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Puerto Rico

Solar share of electricity in Puerto Rico in 2025 — 4.85%. Ranked 54 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.85 pp.

2025 4.85% +0.05 pp vs 2024
World rank 54of 91
Period maximum 4.85%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Puerto Rico, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.09%2013: 0.19%2014: 0.24%2015: 0.43%2016: 0.58%2017: 0.98%2018: 1.75%2019: 2.61%2020: 2.94%2021: 3.51%2022: 4.27%2023: 4.27%2024: 4.8%2025: 4.85%
Change over the period: +4.85 pp Annual average: 0.19 pp
Solar share of electricity — Puerto Rico, by year Puerto Rico All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 4.85 +0.05 pp
2024 4.8 +0.53 pp
2023 4.27 +0 pp
2022 4.27 +0.76 pp
2021 3.51 +0.57 pp
2020 2.94 +0.33 pp
2019 2.61 +0.86 pp
2018 1.75 +0.77 pp
2017 0.98 +0.4 pp
2016 0.58 +0.15 pp
2015 0.43 +0.19 pp
2014 0.24 +0.05 pp
2013 0.19 +0.1 pp
2012 0.09 +0.09 pp
2011 0 +0 pp
2010 0 +0 pp
2009 0 +0 pp
2008 0 +0 pp
2007 0 +0 pp
2006 0 +0 pp
2005 0 +0 pp
2004 0 +0 pp
2003 0 +0 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 +0 pp
2000 0

Caribbean, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

DO Dominican Republic 9.92 PR Puerto Rico 4.85

About the indicator

The share of electricity generated by solar plants in a country's total generation. The fastest-growing series in all of energy statistics: where twenty years ago the share was measured in hundredths of a percent, it now runs into tens. The figure depends less on how much sun there is than on policy and prices: the leaders are not the sunniest countries but those that started building earlier. The flip side of that growth is the daily cycle: at noon solar pushes out the other sources, and in the evening it is gone altogether.

Important: The World Bank has no separate series for solar — there it sits inside “other renewables” together with biomass and geothermal. Aggregates for groups of countries are weighted by generation in terawatt-hours and computed from 2000 onward: there is no weight before that.

Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.