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from

renewable A renewable resource, also known as a flow resource, is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of ti ...

sources every year. Note that most countries import and/or export electricity, so the percentage figure do not reflect the percentage of consumption that is renewable based. Based on

REN21 REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) is a think tank and a multistakeholder governance group which is focused on renewable energy policy. REN21's goal is to facilitate policy development, knowledge exchange, and joint ac ...

's 2020 report, renewables contributed 19.2% to humans'

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and 23.7% to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 8.9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (modern biomass, geothermal and solar heat), 3.9% hydro electricity and 2.2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and

biomass Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms bi ...

. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$332 billion in 2018. Globally, there are approximately 7.7 million jobs associated with the

renewable energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

industries, with

solar photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

being the largest renewable employer. IRENA
Renewable energy and jobs
''Annual review 2015'', IRENA.Retrieved 09-30-2017. worldwide, more than half of all new electricity capacity installed was renewable.Retrieved 09-30-2017. The raw data is from IRENA unless a more recent source is available, and is augmented with

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(EIA) statistics as specified. * indicates "Renewable energy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.

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