The market in numbers
How much solar, wind and battery storage the world has, how much the neighbors and how much Argentina. The country has less than 0.5% of the world's solar and wind, and rooftop panels are almost undeveloped.
Solar power
Installed capacity at the end of 2025, in gigawatts (GW).
In 2025 the world added about 510 GW of solar in a single year: two hundred times what Argentina has. Source: IRENA, Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026 (via PV Tech).
Brazil: 20 GW in utility-scale plants and about 43 GW on rooftops and small installations (ABSOLAR). Mexico: 8.4 GW on the grid and 5.2 GW distributed. Argentina: 2,470 MW in utility-scale plants (CAMMESA) and 98 MW of distributed generation (Law 27,424, Sep-2025). Source: ABSOLAR · CNE Chile · pv magazine.
Brazil: about 43 GW; Spain: 9 GW of self-consumption; Mexico: 5.2 GW; Argentina: 98 MW. If Argentina had Brazil's watts per capita, it would be about 9 GW: more than all its solar and wind today.
Wind power
Installed capacity at the end of 2025, in GW.
World: 1,207 GW onshore and 92 GW offshore. Brazil has 1,161 wind farms; Argentina, 72 farms and 1,240 turbines. Source: GWEC (via T&D India) · ABEEólica.
In 2025, 28,395 wind turbines were installed worldwide, 18,291 of them in China: twenty times all the turbines in Argentina. The largest onshore turbine in the Americas is 7 MW (WEG, Bahia). Source: GWEC, Global Wind Report 2026 · LBNL.
Battery storage (BESS)
Batteries are growing faster than any other technology: in 2025 the world installed 108 GW in a single year.
World: 87 GW grid-connected and about 21 GW behind the meter (homes, businesses and industry). Australia also has 455 thousand home batteries. China has 136 GW cumulative. Source: IEA (via ESS News) · Clean Energy Council.
Argentina: AlmaGBA (~680 MW in the AMBA) and AlmaSADI (700 MW in the interior), under construction; the first ones come online in the 2026-2027 summer. Brazil holds its first battery auctions on December 2 and 4, 2026. Uruguay has no utility-scale projects. Chile: 19.2 GWh under construction. Source: OLACDE (via Reporte Minero) · ESS News: Chile.
How much electricity comes from sun and wind
Share of solar and wind in electricity generation, 2025.
Argentina: 19.6% with all renewables under Law 27,191 (includes small hydro and biomass). Source: Ember · ADME.
What it means for a supplier
- Argentina is far behind in solar and batteries: the room for growth is huge. Plant construction, structures, cabling, substations, civil works and maintenance.
- Rooftop solar barely exists (2 W per capita versus 200 in Brazil): installers, panel and inverter distributors, and financing for SMEs and households.
- Battery storage starts with 1.4 GW awarded: electrical works, containers, transformers, control systems and fire protection.
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Updated as of October 13, 2026. Anything to correct or add? Write to us.