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Field Listing :: Electricity - from other renewable sources
This entry measures the capacity of plants that generate electricity by using renewable energy sources other than hydroelectric (including, for example, wind, waves, solar, and geothermal), expressed as a share of the country's total generating capacity.

Country Comparison Ranking

By Country Listing of the values for the Electricity - from other renewable sources field
Country Electricity - from other renewable sources
Afghanistan
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Albania
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Algeria
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
American Samoa
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Andorra
15% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Angola
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Argentina
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Armenia
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Aruba
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Australia
17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Austria
31% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Azerbaijan
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bahamas, The
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bahrain
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bangladesh
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Barbados
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Belarus
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Belgium
36% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Belize
22% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Benin
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bermuda
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

note: the Tynes Bay Waste Treatment Facility turns waste to electric energy

Bhutan
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bolivia
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Botswana
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Brazil
18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
British Virgin Islands
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Brunei
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Bulgaria
19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Burkina Faso
12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Burma
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Burundi
14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cabo Verde
21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cambodia
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cameroon
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Canada
12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cayman Islands
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Central African Republic
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Chad
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Chile
15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
China
18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Colombia
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Comoros
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Congo, Republic of the
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cook Islands
21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Costa Rica
18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Croatia
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cuba
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Cyprus
15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Czechia
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Denmark
54% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Djibouti
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Dominica
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Dominican Republic
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Ecuador
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Egypt
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
El Salvador
29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Equatorial Guinea
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Eritrea
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Estonia
28% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Eswatini
41% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Ethiopia
11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
European Union
44% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Faroe Islands
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Fiji
27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Finland
23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
France
19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
French Polynesia
11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Gabon
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Gambia, The
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Georgia
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Germany
52% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Ghana
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Gibraltar
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Greece
29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Greenland
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Grenada
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Guam
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Guatemala
28% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Guinea
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Guinea-Bissau
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Guyana
11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Haiti
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Honduras
34% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Hong Kong
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Hungary
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Iceland
25% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
India
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Indonesia
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Iran
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Iraq
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Ireland
33% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Israel
5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Italy
32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Jamaica
15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Japan
20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Jordan
12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kazakhstan
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kenya
33% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kiribati
27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Korea, North
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Korea, South
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kosovo
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kuwait
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Laos
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Latvia
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Lebanon
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Lesotho
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Liberia
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Libya
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Lithuania
23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Luxembourg
67% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Macau
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Madagascar
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Malawi
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Malaysia
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Maldives
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mali
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Malta
19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Marshall Islands
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mauritania
20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mauritius
14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mexico
9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of
3% of total installed capacity (2013 est.)
Moldova
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mongolia
11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Montenegro
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Montserrat
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Morocco
15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Mozambique
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Namibia
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Nauru
14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Nepal
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Netherlands
23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
New Caledonia
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
New Zealand
20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Nicaragua
35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Niger
5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Nigeria
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Niue
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
North Macedonia
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Norway
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Oman
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Pakistan
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Panama
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Papua New Guinea
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Paraguay
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Peru
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Philippines
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Poland
19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Portugal
35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Puerto Rico
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Qatar
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Romania
19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Russia
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Rwanda
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saint Lucia
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Samoa
29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Saudi Arabia
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Senegal
11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Serbia
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Seychelles
9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Sierra Leone
26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Singapore
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Slovakia
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Slovenia
9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Solomon Islands
8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Somalia
7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
South Africa
10% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
South Sudan
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Spain
32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Sri Lanka
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Sudan
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Suriname
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Sweden
32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Switzerland
13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Syria
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Taiwan
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Tajikistan
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Tanzania
6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Thailand
16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Timor-Leste
100% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Togo
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Tonga
26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Tunisia
5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Turkey
14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Turkmenistan
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Uganda
12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Ukraine
3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
United Arab Emirates
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
United Kingdom
39% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
United States
14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Uruguay
42% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Uzbekistan
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Vanuatu
29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Venezuela
0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Vietnam
1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Virgin Islands
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
West Bank
22% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
World
14% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
Yemen
21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Zambia
2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Zimbabwe
5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)