At the 2025 rate, the world generates about 1.01 GWh per second. Ember counted 31,820 TWh generated in 2025. The counters below carry that rate into the present, so they show an estimate of how much has been generated so far this year and so far today, not a measurement.
31,820 TWh generated in 2025
About 1.01 GWh per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
All electricity generated worldwide. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
14,653 MtCO2 emitted in 2025
About 465 tCO2 per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
Emissions from electricity generation worldwide, as estimated by Ember. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
13,463 TWh from low carbon sources in 2025
About 427 MWh per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
Nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal and other renewables together. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
2,780 TWh from solar in 2025
About 88 MWh per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
Electricity from solar power. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
2,704 TWh from wind in 2025
About 86 MWh per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
Electricity from wind power. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
10,611 TWh from coal in 2025
About 336 MWh per second at that rate.
Estimate: the 2025 annual rate carried forward. Not a measurement.
Electricity from burning coal. Ember annual statistics for the world, 2025.
Source: Ember (ember-energy.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Data as of 2025 (annual statistics). The counters apply the latest complete year to the present; Ember publishes no live world measurement.
At the 2025 rate, about 1.01 GWh per second. That is Ember's 31,820 TWh generated in 2025 divided by the 31,536,000 seconds in 2025.
No. They are not live measurements. Ember publishes annual statistics, and the latest complete year is 2025. Each counter takes that year's total, works out the average amount per second, and keeps adding it up from the start of the current UTC year and the current UTC day. The page says so beside every counter.
A year's statistics are only final once the year is over and countries have reported. 2025 is the latest complete year in Ember's data for the world. The counters will move to the next year when Ember publishes it and this site rebuilds.
They are as accurate as a flat average can be. Real electricity use and generation rise and fall with the seasons, the weather and the time of day, and the world grows from one year to the next. A counter running at the 2025 average will drift from the true total during 2026 and later. Treat each figure as an order of magnitude check, not an exact count.
It carries forward Ember's estimate of power sector emissions for 2025, 14,653 MtCO2 emitted in 2025, at 465 tCO2 per second. It is a modelled estimate by Ember, not a count of what smokestacks emitted, and Ember's methodology sets out which emissions it includes.
It counts from midnight UTC (coordinated universal time) and restarts every UTC midnight. The "so far this year" figure counts from midnight UTC on 1 January.
The running totals are calculated in your browser from the current time. Without JavaScript you still see each counter's static annual total from Ember.