Cambodia
KHMCoal overtook hydro on Cambodia's grid in 2023.
Today coal supplies 57% and hydro 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 4 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.
Cambodia buys in more electricity than it sends out.
What this means
The share of the electricity used here that was generated abroad and carried in over high-voltage lines. The higher it climbs, the more this country relies on a neighbour to keep its lights on.
Also true of Cambodia
Coal overtook oil on Cambodia's grid in 2014.
Today coal supplies 57% and oil 3%.
Cambodia's electricity is about as carbon-heavy as the world's.
499 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour, against a world figure of 458.
Cambodia's grid has been getting dirtier, not cleaner.
Low-carbon electricity went from 55% to 41% in 5 years.
Cambodia’s neighbours
LaosLaos generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
ThailandThailand is third in Asia for bioenergy.
VietnamVietnam uses far more electricity per person than countries at its income level.
MyanmarMyanmar has about as many people as South Korea, and 30 times less electricity to share between them.
MalaysiaCoal overtook gas on Malaysia's grid in 2016.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Cambodia. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.