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Electricity generation in Melanesia

Compare 2024 electricity production, renewable shares and low-carbon generation across Melanesia, with country-level grid and market references.

Electricity production by country in Melanesia

4 of 5 listed countries and territories report annual generation. Their available-country subtotal is 9.1 TWh in 2024. This is a sum of available observations, not an official or complete continent/region total. Country shares are shown separately; they are not averaged into a regional percentage.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

Melanesia: reporting-country electricity generation in 2024, ordered by output
Country / territoryGeneration (TWh)Renewable (%)Low-carbon (%)
Papua New Guinea electricity production4.723.723.7
New Caledonia electricity production3.126.926.9
Fiji electricity production1.263.563.5
Solomon Islands electricity production0.119.19.1

Coverage, geography and assumptions

This subregion follows the existing atlas country crosswalk, not a new statistical or electrical boundary. Each country’s full national observation is counted once within this group. Russia is assigned wholly to Europe and Türkiye to Asia; production is not split spatially. A parent group overlaps its subregions, so do not add those pages’ subtotals together.

Subtotals include reported zero values but exclude missing annual generation. They are calculated directly from source TWh, never inferred from installed MW, plant counts or capacity factors. The imported dataset excludes the provider’s regional aggregates; the World chart uses the provider’s separate World series, not a sum of these pages.

Electricity production is only one part of energy production: transport fuels, heat and primary energy are not included. Generation, consumption, electricity imports and installed capacity answer different questions.

1 missing annual generation observations

Source snapshot: 24 April 2026; common observation year: 2024. This page derives navigation and a subtotal from the published snapshot, not live measurements or a refreshed dataset. Editorial and review scope.

Grid operators and electricity markets in Melanesia

A geographic region is not one synchronous grid or one electricity market. Find the national or regional organisations, their stated roles and service areas, and the sources behind each country’s listing. Missing exchange links are not evidence that trading is absent.

Melanesia: selected country grid and market references
Country / territoryListed grid organisationsMarkets / power poolsRecorded structure
Fiji grid operators and electricity marketEnergy Fiji LimitedNo exchange / pool link listedVertically integrated utility
New Caledonia grid operators and electricity marketEnercal; Électricité et Eau de CalédonieNo exchange / pool link listedIsland system
Papua New Guinea grid operators and electricity marketPNG PowerNo exchange / pool link listedVertically integrated utility
Solomon Islands grid operators and electricity marketSolomon PowerNo exchange / pool link listedIsland system
Vanuatu grid operators and electricity marketUNELCONo exchange / pool link listedVertically integrated utility

Operator references reviewed 2026-09-29. Recorded market structures are summaries, not current prices, licence registers or a claim of continent-wide uniformity. The linked country sections include source URLs and geographic limitations.

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