Who is leading in Renewable Energy

Before knowing to the question who is leading in renewable energy let us first know the sources of renewable energy and then knowing which country has maximum potential resources, and how much they are actually utilizing, and also finding per capita energy availability.

So, for renewable energy covers energy from sources such as Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Hydro power.

credit-IRENA

for the analysis report covers for 2017, starting from wind energy and solar energy following is the ranking of the countries based on the generation capacity.

So, aggregating the total generated capacity we get the below graph which shows that china is the leading producer of renewable energy followed by USA, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India.

so as a conclusion China takes the crown for generation of electricity through renewable energy. but here is the trick that we didn't accounted for the energy consumption per Capita, considering this we get the result totally different

credit-IEA energy atlas

considering the results Norway takes the crown for the leader in renewable energy.