Panama
PANGas overtook oil on Panama's grid in 2019.
Today gas supplies 21% and oil 7%.
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 7 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.
Panama generates a surplus and sells it on.
What this means
The share of what this country generates that is sold abroad rather than used at home. A country can only export if it produces more than it needs, which usually means plentiful hydro, nuclear or wind.
Also true of Panama
Panama has taken the carbon out of its electricity fast.
320 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour in 2014, 221 in 2024.
Gas overtook wind on Panama's grid in 2018.
Today gas supplies 21% and wind 7%.
Panama’s neighbours
Costa RicaCosta Rica generates no oil electricity at all, in a region built on it.
ColombiaColombia uses less electricity per person than any other country in the OECD.
NicaraguaNicaragua has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
HondurasHonduras has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
El SalvadorHydro overtook geothermal on El Salvador's grid in 2024.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Panama. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.