Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (kWh) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

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Rank Country Value Year
1 South Africa 4,763,000,000.00 2015
2 Kenya 4,659,000,000.00 2015
3 Morocco 2,525,000,000.00 2015
4 Egypt 1,598,000,000.00 2015
5 Ethiopia 759,000,000.00 2015
6 Mauritius 559,000,000.00 2015
7 Tunisia 489,000,000.00 2015
8 Zimbabwe 129,000,000.00 2015
9 Côte d'Ivoire 105,000,000.00 2015
10 Algeria 77,000,000.00 2015
11 Cameroon 76,000,000.00 2015
12 Senegal 70,000,000.00 2015
13 Tanzania 42,000,000.00 2015
14 Gabon 12,000,000.00 2015
15 Dem. Rep. Congo 10,000,000.00 2015
16 Benin 5,000,000.00 2015
16 Togo 5,000,000.00 2015
18 Niger 4,000,000.00 2015
19 Ghana 3,000,000.00 2015
20 Eritrea 2,000,000.00 2015
21 Botswana 1,000,000.00 2015
22 Angola 0.00 2015
22 Congo 0.00 2015
22 Mozambique 0.00 2015
22 Libya 0.00 2015
22 Nigeria 0.00 2015
22 Sudan 0.00 2015
22 Namibia 0.00 2015
22 Zambia 0.00 2015

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Limitations and Exceptions: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Electricity production from renewable sources (% of total) is the share of electricity produced by geothermal, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, tide, wind, industrial waste, municipal waste, primary solid biofuels, biogases, biogasoline, biodiesels, other liquid biofuels, nonspecified primary biofuels and waste, and charcoal in total electricity production which is the total number of GWh generated by power plants separated into electricity plants and CHP plants. Hydropower is excluded. The International Energy Agency (IEA) compiles data on energy inputs used to generate electricity. IEA data for countries that are not members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are based on national energy data adjusted to conform to annual questionnaires completed by OECD member governments. In addition, estimates are sometimes made to complete major aggregates from which key data are missing, and adjustments are made to compensate for differences in definitions. The IEA makes these estimates in consultation with national statistical offices, oil companies, electric utilities, and national energy experts.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

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