{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"solar-climate-state-2026","title":"State of the Solar Climate, 2026","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/solar-climate-state-2026","datePublished":"2026-06-25","lastReviewed":"2026-10-20"},"figure":{"id":"electricity-mix-2004-vs-2025","title":"The response. Global electricity mix, 2004 against 2025","unit":"% of global electricity generation","valueLabel":"2004","valueBLabel":"2025","caption":"The other half of the state of the climate: what generates the world's power. Between 2004 and 2025 renewables (34%) drew level with coal (33.6%), and solar (8.7%) overtook wind to become the largest renewable after hydro (14.0%). Ember Global Electricity Review; 2004 from Ember via Our World in Data. Corrected on 20 October 2026: this caption, the share card and the text first called solar the largest single renewable; hydro, at 14.0 per cent of global generation in 2025, is larger, and it is now drawn. The 2004 column here and in the table below first showed a composite estimate (coal 40 per cent, renewables 18, wind 0.7 and solar 0); it now shows the Ember via Our World in Data row the committed dataset carries for 2004 (coal 39.03, renewables 17.98, wind 0.49 and solar 0.02).","series":[{"label":"Coal","value":39.03,"valueB":33.6},{"label":"Renewables","value":17.98,"valueB":34},{"label":"Hydro","value":16.09,"valueB":14},{"label":"Solar","value":0.02,"valueB":8.7},{"label":"Wind","value":0.49,"valueB":8.4}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/solar-climate-state-2026/figures/electricity-mix-2004-vs-2025/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}