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The GCC build-out race

Installed solar and wind by country, year by year, then each country's tracked pipeline to 2030 on top, hatched.

The GCC build-out race

Installed solar and wind by country, year by year, then each country's tracked pipeline to 2030 on top, hatched.

2025
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0510Installed capacity, GWSaudi Arabia12.3 GWUAE7.6 GWOman1.7 GWQatar1.7 GWKuwait0.1 GWBahrain0.1 GW2025
  • Solar, installed (IRENA)
  • Wind, installed (IRENA)
  • Tracked pipeline, expected by the year shown

Pipeline counts tracked projects expected to operate after IRENA's latest year, by their stated or expected year; it is not a forecast. IRENA data to 2025; later years add the tracked pipeline.

Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENASTAT); Renewable Vision, the Saudi and GCC renewables trackers. Licence: IRENA, free for non-commercial use with attribution; CC BY-NC 4.0 (Saudi tracker); Compiled from public sources (GCC and captive). As of 2026-09-24; 2026-09-24.