What Are the Five Major Types of Renewable Energy?

1 Credit

Renewable energy is the foundation of the ongoing energy transition. What are the key types of renewable energy, and how do they work?

Visualization type: Infographic

What Are the Five Major Types of Renewable Energy?

Renewable energy is the foundation of the ongoing energy transition. What are the key types of renewable energy, and how do they work?


First published: June 9, 2022 (link)

Source files included: .ai, .eps, .pdf

Data source: Lazard, Ember, U.S. Department of Energy, Our World in Data & IEA

A full license grants you the permission to download and modify our visualization, and to re-publish it in most professional and personal use cases.

Licenses also give you permission to translate our visualizations into another language, provided that you also remove the Visual Capitalist branding.

Type of License

Full License (1 Credit)