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ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLES

source: Worldwatch Institute, ‘State of the world’, 2003.

www.iea.org/dbtw-wpd/textbase/
papers/2002/leaflet.pdf

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electricity production

Renewables are the 2nd largest contributor to global electricity production:
  • in 2000, they accounted for 19% of production, after fossil fuels but ahead of nuclear.


  • 92% of the electricity generated from renewables comes from hydropower,


  • 5% from combustible renewables and waste


  • while geothermal, solar and wind accounted for less than 3%.
World electricity generation by source (2000)
source%
fossil fuels*64
hydropower17
nuclear17
other renewables**2



* Fossil fuels are hydrocarbon fuels or hydrocarbon containing fuels such as petroleum (including natural gas) and coal. With nuclear power, it makes up the category of nuclear-fossil energy.

** ‘Other renewables’ include biomass (modern and traditional), small hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, and marine energy.
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