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Turks and Caicos Islands

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The Turks and Caicos Islands runs almost entirely on oil.

96% of its electricity comes from one source.

Oil share
96%
of everything it generates
Clean share
4%
in 2024
Total output
0.3TWh
a year
Per person
5,799kWh
a year
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Turks and Caicos Islands · mix since 2000
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The Turks and Caicos Islands generates no hydro electricity at all, in a region built on it. 52% of grids in Latin America and the Caribbean draw more than a tenth of their power from hydro.

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.

Carbon intensity
630g CO₂e per kWh

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.

Electricity trade
Self-contained

Turks and Caicos Islands 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 Turks and Caicos Islands

the Turks and Caicos Islands' electricity is dirtier than the world average.

630 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 37% above.

Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Turks and Caicos Islands. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.