Belarus
BLRBelarus has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
Low-carbon electricity went from 4% to 41% in 5 years.
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.
Cleaner than 6 in 10 grids worldwide.
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.
Belarus generates a surplus and sells it on.
What this means
The share of what this country generates that is sold abroad rather than used at home. A country can only export if it produces more than it needs, which usually means plentiful hydro, nuclear or wind.
Most of the fuel behind this grid is bought from abroad.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Belarus
Belarus' electricity is cleaner than the world average.
309 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 33% below.
Belarus has taken the carbon out of its electricity fast.
507 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour in 2015, 309 in 2025.
Belarus’s neighbours
UkraineUkraine is third in the world for nuclear.
PolandPoland is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
LithuaniaWind overtook gas on Lithuania's grid in 2021.
LatviaHydro overtook gas on Latvia's grid in 2020.
RussiaCoal overtook nuclear on Russia's grid in 2025.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Belarus. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.