Faroe Islands
FROThe Faroe Islands generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
54% of grids in Europe draw more than a tenth of their power from gas.
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.
Faroe Islands 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 Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands is second in Europe for oil.
Oil supplies 53% of its electricity.
The Faroe Islands is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
18% of its electricity is wind and solar; 53% is still fossil. Both are true at once, and that tension is the whole story of the transition.
the Faroe Islands' electricity is cleaner than the world average.
347 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 24% below.
Figures are for 2023, the most recent year reported for Faroe Islands. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.