Trinidad and Tobago
TTOTrinidad and Tobago runs almost entirely on gas.
99% of its electricity comes from one source.
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.
Among the most carbon-heavy electricity anywhere.
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.
Trinidad and Tobago 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.
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 Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
682 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 49% above.
Trinidad and Tobago 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.
Trinidad and Tobago runs one of the most fossil-dependent grids in Latin America and the Caribbean.
0% of its electricity is low-carbon, 40th of 42.
Trinidad and Tobago’s neighbours
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Trinidad and Tobago. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.