Dataset
Annual patents filed for renewable energy technologies
owid.patents-filed-for-renewables
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Cite as: IRENA – INSPIRE Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of patents in solar photovoltaic technology” [dataset]. IRENA, “Renewable Energy Patents” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2000–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-28
- Units
- patents
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/patents-filed-for-renewables
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| solar_pv | number | Number of patents in solar photovoltaic technology (patents) |
| solar_thermal | number | Number of patents in solar thermal technology (patents) |
| solar_pv_thermal_hybrid | number | Number of patents in solar photovoltaic and thermal hybrid technology (patents) |
| wind | number | Number of patents in wind energy (patents) |
| hydropower | number | Number of patents in hydropower (patents) |
| marine_and_tidal | number | Number of patents in marine and tidal energy (patents) |
| bioenergy | number | Number of patents in bioenergy (patents) |
| geothermal | number | Number of patents in geothermal energy (patents) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |