Maldives
MDVThe Maldives generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
65% of grids in Asia 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 2 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.
Maldives 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 Maldives
the Maldives' electricity is dirtier than the world average.
612 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 33% above.
The Maldives generates no coal electricity at all, in a region built on it.
45% of grids in Asia draw more than a tenth of their power from coal.
Maldives’s neighbours
Sri LankaHydro overtook coal on Sri Lanka's grid in 2021.
SeychellesThe Seychelles is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
IndiaIndia is third in the world for how much electricity it makes.
OmanOman runs almost entirely on gas.
BangladeshCoal overtook oil on Bangladesh's grid in 2024.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Maldives. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.