Mauritius
MUSOil overtook coal on Mauritius' grid in 2022.
Today oil supplies 43% and coal 39%.
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.
Mauritius 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 Mauritius
Mauritius is third in Africa for bioenergy.
Bioenergy supplies 9% of its electricity.
Mauritius’s neighbours
MadagascarMadagascar has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 176 times less electricity to share between them.
ComorosThe Comoros is first in the world for oil.
SeychellesThe Seychelles is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
MozambiqueMozambique has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 23 times less electricity to share between them.
MalawiMalawi has about as many people as Taiwan, and 148 times less electricity to share between them.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Mauritius. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.