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Where data from both sources is available, data from Ember is prioritized.\n- For each electricity source, we identify the first year in which global electricity production surpassed 100 TWh, and track the evolution of global electricity production from that year onward.","type":"float","datasetName":"Scaling of global historical electricity production","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-02-06","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"terawatt-hours","shortUnit":"TWh"},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"topicTagsLinks":["Energy"]},"descriptionKey":["Each electricity source is tracked from the first year in which its global electricity production surpassed 100 TWh. For example, wind power surpassed 100 TWh in 2005, and hence the first data point (on year zero) corresponds to wind power's global electricity production in 2005; the next data point is wind power's production in 2006, and so on.","This means that year zero corresponds to different calendar years for different electricity sources. For example, year zero corresponds to 2005 for wind power, but to 2013 for solar power."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":0},{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":6},{"id":7},{"id":8},{"id":9},{"id":10},{"id":11},{"id":12},{"id":13},{"id":14},{"id":15},{"id":16},{"id":17},{"id":18},{"id":19},{"id":20},{"id":21},{"id":22},{"id":23},{"id":24},{"id":25},{"id":26},{"id":27},{"id":28},{"id":29},{"id":30},{"id":31},{"id":32},{"id":33},{"id":34},{"id":35},{"id":36},{"id":37},{"id":38},{"id":39},{"id":40},{"id":41},{"id":42},{"id":43},{"id":44},{"id":45},{"id":46},{"id":47},{"id":48},{"id":49},{"id":50},{"id":51},{"id":52},{"id":53},{"id":54},{"id":55},{"id":56},{"id":57},{"id":58},{"id":59},{"id":60},{"id":61},{"id":62},{"id":63},{"id":64},{"id":65},{"id":66},{"id":67},{"id":68},{"id":69},{"id":70},{"id":71},{"id":72},{"id":73},{"id":74},{"id":75},{"id":76},{"id":77},{"id":78},{"id":79},{"id":80},{"id":81},{"id":82},{"id":83},{"id":84},{"id":85},{"id":86},{"id":87},{"id":88},{"id":89},{"id":90},{"id":91},{"id":92},{"id":93},{"id":94},{"id":95},{"id":96},{"id":97},{"id":98},{"id":99},{"id":100},{"id":101},{"id":102},{"id":103},{"id":104},{"id":105},{"id":106}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":29041,"name":"Bioenergy","code":null},{"id":29302,"name":"Coal","code":null},{"id":29303,"name":"Gas","code":null},{"id":372609,"name":"Hydro","code":null},{"id":29306,"name":"Nuclear","code":null},{"id":29304,"name":"Oil","code":null},{"id":29040,"name":"Solar","code":null},{"id":34678,"name":"Total","code":null},{"id":29039,"name":"Wind","code":null}]}},"origins":[{"id":10896,"title":"Yearly Electricity Data Europe","description":"This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, imports and demand data for European countries.\n\nYou can find more about Ember's methodology in [this document](https://files.ember-energy.org/public-downloads/ember_electricity_data_methodology.pdf).","producer":"Ember","citationFull":"Ember - Yearly Electricity Data Europe (2026).\n\nMost of the data is taken from the European Commission's Eurostat annual data.","attributionShort":"Ember","urlMain":"https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/","urlDownload":"https://files.ember-energy.org/public-downloads/europe_yearly_full_release_long_format.csv","dateAccessed":"2026-01-26","datePublished":"2026-01-26","license":{"url":"https://ember-energy.org/creative-commons/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":10759,"title":"Yearly Electricity Data","description":"This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over 200 geographies.\n\n\nYou can find more about Ember's methodology in [this document](https://storage.googleapis.com/emb-prod-bkt-publicdata/public-downloads/ember_electricity_data_methodology.pdf).","producer":"Ember","citationFull":"Ember - Yearly Electricity Data (2026).\n\nThe data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, Energy Institute, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics).","attributionShort":"Ember","urlMain":"https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/","urlDownload":"https://storage.googleapis.com/emb-prod-bkt-publicdata/public-downloads/yearly_full_release_long_format.csv","dateAccessed":"2026-01-09","datePublished":"2026-01-09","license":{"url":"https://ember-energy.org/creative-commons/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":12501,"title":"Global historical electricity","description":"Global historical electricity, from 1900 to 2017. The data was extracted from the supplementary materials of Pinto et al. (2023), \"The rise and stall of world electricity efficiency:1900–2017, results and insights for the renewables transition\".","producer":"Pinto et al.","citationFull":"Ricardo Pinto, Sofia T. Henriques, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Tânia Sousa,\nThe rise and stall of world electricity efficiency:1900–2017, results and insights for the renewables transition, Energy, Volume 269, 2023, 126775, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.126775.","urlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.126775","dateAccessed":"2026-02-06","datePublished":"2023-04-15","license":{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.126775","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}