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The �鶹��Ƶ Status Report 2022 was the last of its kind and has been replaced by the World �鶹��Ƶ Outlook the first of which launched in June 2023.

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The 2022 �鶹��Ƶ 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.

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