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Argentina took five years to reach 10% wind power

Years from 1% to 10% of power from wind, 12 of the 23 systems over 10 TWh that made it.

The energy switch
  1. 1. China now uses more electricity per person than the EU
  2. 2. Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels
  3. 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
  4. 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
  5. 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
  6. 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
  7. 7. Nepal imports twice as many electric cars as petrol cars
  8. 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
  9. 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
  10. 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
  11. 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
  12. 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
  13. 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
  14. 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
  15. 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
  16. 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
  17. 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
  18. 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
  19. 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
  20. 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
  21. 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
  22. 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
  23. 23. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
  24. 24. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
  25. 25. Solar now beats coal in 25 of 81 coal-burning countries
  26. 26. Indonesia climbed from ninth to second among cobalt miners
  27. 27. Fossil fuels fell from all to two-thirds of UAE power
  28. 28. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
  29. 29. Paraguay now uses most of the power it makes
  30. 30. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
  31. 31. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
  32. 32. Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
  33. 33. Guyana now emits more CO2 per person than Britain
  34. 34. Nepal now sells more electricity than it buys
  35. 35. Emerging economies now take 42% of China's electric car exports
  36. 36. China's car sales to Ethiopia are now mostly electric
  37. 37. Saudi Arabia's battery imports grew 46-fold since 2019
  38. 38. Pakistan became the world's third-biggest buyer of solar panels
  39. 39. Solar beats hydropower in 28 of 131 countries
  40. 40. Viet Nam reached 10% solar in two years, Germany 13
  41. 41. Indonesia became America's biggest solar panel supplier
  42. 42. Solar overtook wind power in 24 countries in ten years
  43. 43. Brazil rose from 15th to 4th in wind power
  44. 44. Sub-Saharan Africa now holds 88% of people without electricity
  45. 45. Argentina took five years to reach 10% wind power
  46. 46. The G7 added 9% of new electricity demand outside China
  47. 47. Outside China, nuclear power has not grown since 2015
5 years

Argentina's climb from under 1% wind power in 2018 (1% passed in 2019, 3.6%) to 10.6% in 2024; it reached 12.2% in 2025.

6 vs 13 years

Median climb for the 9 power systems that passed 1% wind in 2011 or later, against the 14 that passed it in 2010 or earlier.

18 years

The Netherlands' climb, 2002 to 2020; Morocco took 17, China 15, the US 14, Brazil 8 after starting in 2013.

Source: Ember, Yearly electricity data: share of electricity from wind, 2025
the numbers & method
Argentina took five years to reach 10% wind power. Source: Ember, Yearly electricity data: share of electricity from wind, 2025.
Years from 1% to 10% wind (yrs)
Uruguay4
Portugal5
Argentina5
Sweden7
Brazil8
United Kingdom9
Chile9
Turkey12
United States14
China15
Morocco17
Netherlands18

Claim types Fact · Estimate

Ember, Yearly electricity data: share of electricity generation from wind (%) and electricity demand (TWh), 2000-2025, read from Ember via the progrss vault (GUIDELINES §4.11, ember passes value_checks). Method (progrss calculation, descriptive, no link claimed): years from the first year with wind at or above 1% of generation to the first year at or above 10%. Set: countries with electricity demand of 10 TWh or more in 2024 and wind below 1% in their first reported year (2000 or later) that reached 10% by 2025: 23 countries. Pioneers already above 1% in 2000 (for example Denmark, Spain, Germany) are left out because their climb began before the data. The chart shows 12 of the 23; the other 11: Kenya 1 year (3.4% in 2018, 13.5% in 2019, a one-year jump), Lithuania 2, Romania 4, Croatia 6, Finland 7, Belgium 9, Poland 10, Norway 11, Australia 14, Austria 15, Greece 16. Shown: Uruguay 2011-2015, Portugal 2003-2008, Argentina 2019-2024 (0.96% in 2018, 3.58% in 2019, 10.55% in 2024, 12.15% in 2025), Sweden 2008-2015, Brazil 2013-2021, UK 2006-2015, Chile 2014-2023, Turkey 2010-2022, US 2008-2022, China 2010-2025, Morocco 2001-2018, Netherlands 2002-2020. Group medians (all 23): passed 1% in 2011 or later, 9 countries, 6 years (range 1 to 11); in 2010 or earlier, 14 countries, 13 years (range 2 to 18). Ember's reporting set shrinks in the latest year (92 reporters in 2025), which does not affect countries that reached 10%. Claim type Fact (Ember yearly data), years progrss calculation.

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