Brazil rose from 15th to 4th in wind power
Electricity from wind, TWh, 2012 vs 2025, the ten biggest wind producers of 2025. Ember yearly data.
- 1. China now uses more electricity per person than the EU
- 2. Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels
- 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
- 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
- 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
- 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
- 7. Nepal imports twice as many electric cars as petrol cars
- 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
- 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
- 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
- 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
- 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
- 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
- 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
- 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
- 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
- 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
- 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
- 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
- 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
- 23. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
- 24. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
- 25. Solar now beats coal in 25 of 81 coal-burning countries
- 26. Indonesia climbed from ninth to second among cobalt miners
- 27. Fossil fuels fell from all to two-thirds of UAE power
- 28. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
- 29. Paraguay now uses most of the power it makes
- 30. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
- 31. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
- 32. Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
- 33. Guyana now emits more CO2 per person than Britain
- 34. Nepal now sells more electricity than it buys
- 35. Emerging economies now take 42% of China's electric car exports
- 36. China's car sales to Ethiopia are now mostly electric
- 37. Saudi Arabia's battery imports grew 46-fold since 2019
- 38. Pakistan became the world's third-biggest buyer of solar panels
- 39. Solar beats hydropower in 28 of 131 countries
- 40. Viet Nam reached 10% solar in two years, Germany 13
- 41. Indonesia became America's biggest solar panel supplier
- 42. Solar overtook wind power in 24 countries in ten years
- 43. Brazil rose from 15th to 4th in wind power
Brazil's world rank in wind electricity, 2012 to 2025: from 5 TWh to 116 TWh, behind only China, the US and Germany.
Wind's share of Brazil's electricity in 2025, up from 0.9% in 2012; Brazil's wind output rose in every one of those years.
Germany's lead over Brazil in 2025, down from 47 TWh in 2012, as German wind output fell in 2024 and 2025.
the numbers & method
| 2012 (TWh) | 2025 (TWh) | |
|---|---|---|
| China | 103 | 1,128 |
| United States | 141 | 464 |
| Germany | 52 | 132 |
| Brazil | 5 | 116 |
| India | 27 | 104 |
| United Kingdom | 20 | 86 |
| Spain | 49 | 59 |
| Canada | 11 | 53 |
| France | 15 | 51 |
| Australia | 8 | 40 |
Claim types Fact
Ember Yearly Electricity Data, wind generation in TWh, read from Ember via the progrss vault (§4.11, ember 3 matches/0 mismatches; live re-read failed: WebFetch blocked, vault_fetch returned no number). World rank among all countries with Ember data: Brazil 15th of 200 in 2012 (5.05 TWh), 4th in 2024 (107.65 TWh, of 191) and 2025 (115.84 TWh). Ember's 2025 file covers 92 countries so far; every country above Brazil's 2025 output in 2024 (China, US, Germany) reports 2025, and no missing country exceeded 108 TWh in 2024, so the 2025 rank holds. Brazil's wind output rose every year 2012–2025: 5.05, 6.58, 12.21, 21.63, 33.49, 42.37, 48.48, 55.99, 57.05, 72.29, 81.63, 95.80, 107.65, 115.84 TWh. Wind share of Brazil's generation: 0.91% (2012), 14.33% (2024), 15.17% (2025). Germany 51.68 (2012), 140.54 (2023), 137.43 (2024), 132.27 (2025). Chart: the ten biggest wind producers of 2025 (China, US, Germany, Brazil, India, UK, Spain, Canada, France, Australia; Australia 7.72 TWh in 2012, 39.59 in 2025; Sweden is 12th with 38.89); slope ranks are among these ten only (Brazil 10th of the ten in 2012, 4th in 2025). Gaps and the 2012–2025 multiple (×22.9) are progrss calculations. Related: plate 168 (India's sun and wind vs Germany), plate 311 (solar overtook wind in 24 countries).
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