North Macedonia
MKDSolar overtook hydro on North Macedonia's grid in 2025.
Today solar supplies 24% and hydro 20%.
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.
North Macedonia 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.
Most of the fuel behind this grid is bought from abroad.
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 North Macedonia
North Macedonia is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
27% of its electricity is wind and solar; 53% is still fossil. Both are true at once, and that tension is the whole story of the transition.
North Macedonia is third in Europe for solar.
Solar supplies 24% of its electricity.
North Macedonia has no dominant fuel at all.
Its largest single source supplies just 31% of the grid.
North Macedonia’s neighbours
AlbaniaAlbania runs one of the cleanest grids in the world.
SerbiaSerbia gets next to none of its electricity from solar, in a region built on it.
BulgariaNuclear overtook coal on Bulgaria's grid in 2023.
GreeceSolar overtook wind on Greece's grid in 2025.
MontenegroHydro overtook coal on Montenegro's grid in 2023.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for North Macedonia. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.