The Hydropower Status Report 2022 was the last of its kind and has been replaced by the World Hydropower Outlook the first of which launched in June 2023.
The 2022 Hydropower Status Report finds that:
- Global installed hydropower capacity rose by 26 GW to 1360 GW in 2021
- 4,250 TWh of clean electricity was generated from hydropower, 1 and a half times the entire electricity consumption of the EU
- Around 80% of new hydropower capacity installed in 2021 was in a single country – China
- 4.7 GW of pumped storage hydropower was added to the grid, triple the amount added in 2020.
However, the report finds that this growth is not enough to reach net zero targets.
