Sri Lanka
LKAHydro overtook coal on Sri Lanka's grid in 2021.
Today hydro supplies 38% and coal 28%.
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.
Sri Lanka 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.
A mix of fuel produced at home and fuel bought in.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Sri Lanka
Hydro overtook oil on Sri Lanka's grid in 2020.
Today hydro supplies 38% and oil 11%.
Sri Lanka has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
Low-carbon electricity went from 36% to 62% in 5 years.
Sri Lanka's electricity is cleaner than the world average.
329 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 28% below.
Sri Lanka’s neighbours
MaldivesThe Maldives generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
IndiaIndia is third in the world for how much electricity it makes.
BangladeshCoal overtook oil on Bangladesh's grid in 2024.
MyanmarMyanmar has about as many people as South Korea, and 30 times less electricity to share between them.
NepalNepal runs almost entirely on hydro.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Sri Lanka. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.