Latin America and Caribbean

Bahamas

BHS

The Bahamas runs almost entirely on oil.

99% of its electricity comes from one source.

Oil share

99%

of everything it generates

Clean share

in 2024

Total output

2.3TWh

a year

Per person

5,607kWh

a year

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Bahamas · mix since 2000

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The Bahamas generates no hydro electricity at all, in a region built on it. 52% of grids in Latin America and the Caribbean draw more than a tenth of their power from hydro.

What this grid depends on

Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.

Carbon intensity

653g CO₂e per kWh

Among the most carbon-heavy electricity anywhere.

What this means

How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.

Electricity trade

Self-contained

Bahamas generates almost exactly what it uses, with next to nothing crossing its borders.

What this means

Electricity can be sold across a border like anything else, through high-voltage lines connecting one country's grid to the next. Buying it in means leaning on a neighbour to keep the lights on. Selling it means generating more than the country needs.

Also true of Bahamas

the Bahamas' electricity is dirtier than the world average.

653 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 43% above.

Bahamas’s neighbours

Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Bahamas. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.