Jamaica
JAMGas overtook oil on Jamaica's grid in 2020.
Today gas supplies 57% and oil 30%.
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 3 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.
Jamaica 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 Jamaica
Jamaica's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
563 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 23% above.
Jamaica has about as many people as Qatar, and 10 times less electricity to share between them.
2.8 million people against 3.1 million, but 1,733 kWh per person a year against 18,030.
Jamaica’s neighbours
CubaCuba gets next to none of its electricity from hydro, in a region built on it.
HaitiHaiti has about as many people as the United Arab Emirates, and 220 times less electricity to share between them.
BahamasThe Bahamas runs almost entirely on oil.
Dominican RepublicCoal overtook gas on Dominican Republic's grid in 2022.
NicaraguaNicaragua has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Jamaica. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.