Comoros
COMThe Comoros is first in the world for oil.
Oil supplies 100% of its electricity.
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 2 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.
Comoros 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 Comoros
the Comoros' electricity is dirtier than the world average.
643 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 40% above.
The Comoros runs one of the most fossil-dependent grids in Africa.
0% of its electricity is low-carbon, 52th of 53.
Comoros’s neighbours
MadagascarMadagascar has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 176 times less electricity to share between them.
MalawiMalawi has about as many people as Taiwan, and 148 times less electricity to share between them.
MozambiqueMozambique has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 23 times less electricity to share between them.
TanzaniaTanzania's grid has been getting dirtier, not cleaner.
SeychellesThe Seychelles is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
Figures are for 2023, the most recent year reported for Comoros. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.