India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
Electricity generated from solar and wind, terawatt-hours, 2014–2025. Ember yearly data.
- 1. India now has more working-age people than China
- 2. India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
- 3. Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
- 4. India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
- 5. India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
- 6. Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly
- 7. India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
- 8. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 9. India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
- 10. India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
- 11. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 12. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 13. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 14. India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia
- 15. Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7%
- 16. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
Power India made from sun and wind in 2025, up from 38.4 TWh in 2014. It passed Germany in 2024.
Germany's output from sun and wind in 2025. It is 44.7% of German power; in India the share is 14.4%.
India's rise in sun and wind power in 2025 alone, from 223.2 to 298.6 TWh.
the numbers & method
| Year | India (TWh) | Germany (TWh) | Brazil (TWh) | Japan (TWh) | United Kingdom (TWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 38.4 | 94.0 | 12.2 | 28.6 | 36.0 |
| 2015 | 39.8 | 118.7 | 21.7 | 39.8 | 47.8 |
| 2016 | 55.7 | 117.5 | 33.6 | 48.7 | 47.6 |
| 2017 | 75.0 | 144.5 | 43.2 | 59.7 | 61.1 |
| 2018 | 97.8 | 154.3 | 51.9 | 68.6 | 69.6 |
| 2019 | 100.8 | 171.1 | 62.7 | 74.8 | 76.3 |
| 2020 | 112.0 | 181.6 | 67.8 | 84.1 | 88.2 |
| 2021 | 132.1 | 163.5 | 89.0 | 93.7 | 77.1 |
| 2022 | 164.4 | 185.1 | 111.8 | 100.5 | 93.6 |
| 2023 | 196.1 | 204.4 | 146.4 | 106.3 | 96.6 |
| 2024 | 223.2 | 211.6 | 178.3 | 107.8 | 98.4 |
| 2025 | 298.6 | 222.0 | 203.9 | 123.6 | 105.8 |
Claim types Fact
Ember yearly electricity generation data, series 'Wind' and 'Solar', read from the Ember API (api.ember-energy.org, electricity-generation/yearly) through the progrss data vault on 4 Nov 2026; chart values are wind + solar summed by progrss, TWh to two decimals. India vs Germany: 2023 196.12 vs 204.41; 2024 223.20 vs 211.56 (first year above); 2025 298.60 vs 221.97. Shares of each country's generation (wind + solar, Ember): India 14.4%, Germany 44.7% in 2025. The 34% rise (223.20 to 298.60 TWh) is a progrss calculation. The latest year's data can be provisional and revised. Solar includes rooftop solar where Ember estimates it. Licence CC BY 4.0.
Published 4 Nov 2026
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