Eswatini
SWZHydro overtook bioenergy on Eswatini's grid in 2021.
Today hydro supplies 57% and bioenergy 34%.
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 8 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.
Eswatini depends heavily on its neighbours for power.
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.
Also true of Eswatini
Eswatini brings in 63% of the electricity it uses.
Its own power stations cover the rest.
Eswatini's electricity is cleaner than the world average.
131 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 71% below.
Eswatini generates no oil electricity at all, in a region built on it.
47% of grids in Africa draw more than a tenth of their power from oil.
Eswatini’s neighbours
MozambiqueMozambique has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 23 times less electricity to share between them.
South AfricaSouth Africa is third in the world for coal.
LesothoLesotho runs almost entirely on hydro.
BotswanaBotswana is first in the world for coal.
ZimbabweHydro overtook coal on Zimbabwe's grid in 2017.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Eswatini. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.