What we count
Gross world electricity generation from coal, gas, oil, renewables and nuclear power.
Electricity generated today
How much electricity corresponds to today's share of the latest annual world generation reported by the IEA.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
17,272,740renewable electricity generated today
17,352,808coal-fired electricity generated today
10,902,420gas-fired electricity generated today
What lies behind this number
Gross world electricity generation from coal, gas, oil, renewables and nuclear power.
How the source derives it
The source combines national energy balances, reported production, reserves and other official energy statistics.
What one number cannot show
The even daily conversion does not capture real hourly peaks, weather or differences between time zones.
Source value
The calculation uses the latest published annual value from IEA Global Energy Review 2026 for 2025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh).
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time since midnight.
Annual value32,088,400,000MWh
- Period
- 2025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh)
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- IEA Global Energy Review 2026
How the number is calculated
We convert the published annual value into an average share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed seconds today ÷ seconds in the yearAnnual reference value32,088,400,0002025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh) · MWh
Average per day87,855,055even time-based calculation
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
IEA Global Energy Review 2026 reports the latest published figure used on this page for 2025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh).
Calculation method
We convert the published annual value into an average share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from IEA Global Energy Review 2026 and refers to 2025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh). It is the latest figure published by this source. The source combines national energy balances, reported production, reserves and other official energy statistics.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- IEA Global Energy Review 2026
- Data period
- 2025 (source total of 32,088.4 TWh)
- Verified
- 13 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation