Ghana
GHAGas overtook hydro on Ghana's grid in 2020.
Today gas supplies 61% and hydro 35%.
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 5 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.
Ghana 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.
Also true of Ghana
Ghana's grid has been getting dirtier, not cleaner.
Low-carbon electricity went from 64% to 36% in 10 years.
Gas overtook oil on Ghana's grid in 2014.
Today gas supplies 61% and oil 2%.
Ghana has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 19 times less electricity to share between them.
34 million people against 34 million, but 705 kWh per person a year against 13,386.
Ghana’s neighbours
Cote d'IvoireCote d'Ivoire has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 40 times less electricity to share between them.
Burkina FasoBurkina Faso has about as many people as Taiwan, and 174 times less electricity to share between them.
TogoTogo has about as many people as Israel, and 102 times less electricity to share between them.
BeninGas overtook oil on Benin's grid in 2019.
MaliMali has about as many people as Taiwan, and 51 times less electricity to share between them.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Ghana. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.