Russia
RUSCoal overtook nuclear on Russia's grid in 2025.
Today coal supplies 18% and nuclear 18%.
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.
Russia 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.
Almost everything this grid runs on comes from inside the country.
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 Russia
Coal overtook hydro on Russia's grid in 2023.
Today coal supplies 18% and hydro 17%.
Russia is third in Asia for how much electricity it makes.
1,193 TWh a year.
Russia's electricity is about as carbon-heavy as the world's.
450 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour, against a world figure of 458.
Russia’s neighbours
ChinaChina is first in the world for how much electricity it makes.
KazakhstanGas overtook hydro on Kazakhstan's grid in 2011.
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan generates no coal electricity at all, in a region built on it.
North KoreaHydro overtook coal on North Korea's grid in 2020.
GeorgiaGeorgia generates no coal electricity at all, in a region built on it.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Russia. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.