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It's generated electricity, not installed capacity:
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/renewable-electricity-2023
key part: includes hydropower. The world was at 20% already in 1985.
The trend line looks good though, we've been mostly maxed out on hydropower for decades.
Not really
Cool. I guess I was thinking in the US. Globally is still getting more
I'd assume electricity consumption has grown a lot faster than hydropower capacity since then.
A bit. We have basically done x2.5 in electricity production since 1985 and x2 in hydropower.