Solar share of electricity in Northern America in 2024 — 6.23%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 6.22 pp.
2000–2024 · % of generation
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Northern America
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.23 | +1.18 pp |
| 2023 | 5.05 | +0.8 pp |
| 2022 | 4.25 | +0.73 pp |
| 2021 | 3.53 | +0.66 pp |
| 2020 | 2.87 | +0.57 pp |
| 2019 | 2.3 | +0.31 pp |
| 2018 | 1.99 | +0.28 pp |
| 2017 | 1.71 | +0.49 pp |
| 2016 | 1.21 | +0.33 pp |
| 2015 | 0.89 | +0.23 pp |
| 2014 | 0.66 | +0.43 pp |
| 2013 | 0.22 | +0.11 pp |
| 2012 | 0.11 | +0.07 pp |
| 2011 | 0.05 | +0.02 pp |
| 2010 | 0.03 | +0.01 pp |
| 2009 | 0.02 | +0 pp |
| 2008 | 0.02 | +0.01 pp |
| 2007 | 0.01 | −0 pp |
| 2006 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2005 | 0.01 | −0 pp |
| 2004 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2003 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2002 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2001 | 0.01 | +0 pp |
| 2000 | 0.01 | — |
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.
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