China Leads a BRICS Nations Shift Into Solar Power, Report Shows

Bloomberg.com · last updated July 2, 2025 – 9:16 PM

China’s vast clean-energy industry has spearheaded a BRICS solar-power boom, with the bloc accounting for more than half of global generation last year, according to a new report.

Most BRICS countries remain major fossil fuel producers, but the group together produced 51% of the world’s solar energy in 2024 — up from 15% a decade earlier, energy research firm Ember said in the report. China accounted for the lion’s share, and alone produced 39%, but India made up 6.3% and Brazil totalled 3.5%.

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