ThinkGeoEnergy reports that global geothermal power generation capacity stood at 16,355 MW at the year-end 2023. Growth is picking up with further growth expected for 2024.
This represents an increase of 208 MW from 2022. For our latest numbers, we though updated and corrected our reported numbers for Japan and Italy. Without those corrections the increase would be 281 MW and with that very close to the increase of last year.
Here are the Top 10 geothermal countries as of year-end 2023:
United States* – 3,900 MW (updated our numbers as per the notes below)
Indonesia – 2,418 MW – with a last minute addition for 2023 at Sorik Marapi
Philippines – 1,952 MW – updated numbers by DOE
Turkiye – 1,691 MW – corrected numbers based on official license numbers by the Turkish authorities
New Zealand – 1,042 MW – based on official numbers by the national regulator
Kenya – 985 MW – addition of the first 35 MW of three plants at Menegai coming online in 2023 and some updates by numbers reported by KenGen (the country is inching closer to joining the Geothermal GW Country Club)
Mexico – 976 MW – no change, yet updated numbers from the Ministry of Energy
Italy – 916 MW – correction of our reporting of early 2023.
Iceland – 754 MW
Japan – 576 MW – corrections of plants and number based on official government numbers.