Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Romania

Solar share of electricity in Romania in 2025 — 9.78%. Ranked 34 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.78 pp.

2025 9.78% +3.29 pp vs 2024
World rank 34of 91
Period maximum 9.78%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Romania, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.02%2013: 0.72%2014: 2.5%2015: 3.02%2016: 2.83%2017: 2.93%2018: 2.76%2019: 3.03%2020: 3.13%2021: 2.9%2022: 3.64%2023: 3.92%2024: 6.49%2025: 9.78%
Change over the period: +9.78 pp Annual average: 0.39 pp

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Romania

Romania 9.78%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Eastern Europe computed 3.07%
Solar share of electricity — Romania, by year Romania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.78 +3.29 pp
2024 6.49 +2.57 pp
2023 3.92 +0.28 pp
2022 3.64 +0.74 pp
2021 2.9 −0.23 pp
2020 3.13 +0.1 pp
2019 3.03 +0.27 pp
2018 2.76 −0.17 pp
2017 2.93 +0.1 pp
2016 2.83 −0.19 pp
2015 3.02 +0.52 pp
2014 2.5 +1.78 pp
2013 0.72 +0.7 pp
2012 0.02 +0.02 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

Eastern Europe, 2025

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

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.