Full Title: Off-Grid Renewable Energy Statistics 2024
Author(s): International Renewable Energy Agency
Publisher(s): International Renewable Energy Agency
Publication Date: December 5, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
Off-grid electricity production from renewables, although largely unrecorded in most countries, is believed to be expanding rapidly. By combining information from surveys, administrative data and desk research, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has attempted to illuminate major trends in off-grid renewable energy deployment.
This publication presents statistics for the period 2014-2023 in trilingual tables, covering off-grid solar, hydro, bioenergy and wind power capacity, biogas production and numbers of people using off-grid power and biogas for cooking and lighting. Off-grid renewable power can come from various sources, ranging from large isolated power grids to solar lights and solar home systems. In addition to households, off-grid renewables provide power for cooking, water pumping, street lighting, charging stations, telecommunications towers, rural schools and clinics, as well as for remote commercial and industrial facilities and other uses. Major trends in the sector worldwide are outlined in the accompanying brief, off-grid renewable energy highlights.
The capacity figures presented here do not cover all the off-grid power sources reported in IRENA’s annual capacity statistics. However, they provide more details on the end-use of some types of off-grid renewable power and information on the number of people using such power sources. The sources and methodologies used to compile this data are explained in the Measurement and estimation of off-grid solar, hydro and biogas energy.