Renewables Global Status Report

Overview

The Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) is the world’s only crowd-sourced, annually published global assessment of renewable energy. Since 2005, it has provided a comprehensive and authoritative overview of developments shaping the global energy transition.

The report tracks progress across policies, markets, investments, technologies, and socio-economic dimensions, offering a uniquely integrated picture of where renewable energy stands — and where it is heading.

Purpose and Distinctiveness

The GSR occupies a unique position in the global energy landscape by:

• Bringing together hundreds of contributors worldwide, including researchers, policymakers, industry experts, and civil-society organisations
• Combining quantitative data with qualitative analysis of emerging trends
• Covering renewable energy across power, heating and cooling, transport, and enabling sectors
• Remaining independent, policy-relevant, and globally comparative

As a crowd-sourced report, the GSR reflects a diversity of regional perspectives while maintaining a consistent global narrative.

A Collaborative Global Effort

Producing the GSR each year is a large-scale collaborative process involving:

• Data contributions from institutions and experts around the world
• Peer review of chapters by subject-matter specialists
• Co-authorship across disciplines and regions

This collective approach ensures both credibility and breadth, while allowing the report to surface emerging issues that may not yet be visible in official statistics alone.

Accessing the Report

• Global Status Report series
  https://www.ren21.net/reports/global-status-report/

• Interactive online edition (latest)
  https://www.ren21.net/gsr-2025/

The interactive version allows readers to:

• Navigate easily between sections
• Explore open data sets
• Read the report cover to cover or dip into specific topics
• Access the content in over 100 languages