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Australian electricity generation renewable sources

This is a stacked area chart showing Gigawatt hours over time, in years, for four series of renewable fuels. Hydro was historically nearly all renewable generation and has remained at fairly flat generation levels while wind and solar have grown strongly since 2000 to each overtake hydro power. Wind grew first and then solar caught up and overtook it recently. Bioenergy generation has remained smaller and relatively stable.
The figure shows Australian electricity generation from renewable sources in gigawatt hours from 1995-96 to 2020-21. Generation from renewables has increased 167% over the past decade. The composition of renewable energy in Australia has diversified significantly as wind and increasingly solar capacity has come online, with the share of hydro declining.

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  1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Hydro 15,731.0 16,852.0 15,733.0 16,563.0 16,720.0 16,933.0 16,054.0 16,490.0 16,331.1 15,612.2 16,029.2 14,517.0 12,056.9 11,869.4 13,548.7 16,806.7 14,083.3 18,269.6 18,421.0 13,445.0 15,318.2 16,284.9 16,020.8 15,967.3 15,149.6 15,199.7
Wind 7.0 7.0 8.0 28.0 58.0 210.0 364.0 703.1 705.0 885.0 1,713.1 2,611.1 3,093.1 3,823.8 5,051.7 6,084.9 6,969.7 7,959.6 10,252.0 11,466.6 12,199.5 12,597.0 15,174.4 17,712.0 20,395.9 24,535.4
Solar 23.4 27.8 33.5 37.7 43.5 50.0 58.3 58.3 68.6 78.3 90.8 105.2 123.3 156.1 425.4 1,530.9 2,559.2 3,826.8 4,416.5 5,531.9 6,838.5 8,072.2 9,929.9 14,848.5 21,033.2 27,717.0
Bioenergy 928.0 965.0 1,029.0 1,133.0 1,134.0 645.0 950.0 1,583.6 1,799.5 3,830.0 3,911.0 3,953.0 4,596.0 2,795.2 2,777.4 2,101.7 3,043.7 3,143.5 3,499.4 3,592.2 3,789.9 3,500.5 3,517.7 3,495.9 3,351.6 3,346.2