Electricity generation in Oceania
Compare 2024 electricity production, renewable shares and low-carbon generation across Oceania, with country-level grid and market references.
Electricity production by country in Oceania
14 of 27 listed countries and territories report annual generation. Their available-country subtotal is 337.9 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.
| Country / territory | Generation (TWh) | Renewable (%) | Low-carbon (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia electricity production | 281.6 | 35.1 | 35.1 |
| New Zealand electricity production | 44 | 86 | 86 |
| Papua New Guinea electricity production | 4.7 | 23.7 | 23.7 |
| New Caledonia electricity production | 3.1 | 26.9 | 26.9 |
| Guam electricity production | 1.9 | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| Fiji electricity production | 1.2 | 63.5 | 63.5 |
| French Polynesia electricity production | 0.72 | 34.7 | 34.7 |
| American Samoa electricity production | 0.18 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
| Samoa electricity production | 0.16 | 43.8 | 43.8 |
| Solomon Islands electricity production | 0.11 | 9.1 | 9.1 |
| Tonga electricity production | 0.07 | 14.3 | 14.3 |
| Nauru electricity production | 0.05 | 20 | 20 |
| Cook Islands electricity production | 0.04 | 50 | 50 |
| Kiribati electricity production | 0.04 | 25 | 25 |
Coverage, geography and assumptions
This broad geographic group 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.
13 missing annual generation observations
- Christmas Island: atlas coverage and references
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands: atlas coverage and references
- Marshall Islands: atlas coverage and references
- Micronesia: atlas coverage and references
- Niue: atlas coverage and references
- Norfolk Island: atlas coverage and references
- Northern Mariana Islands: atlas coverage and references
- Palau: atlas coverage and references
- Pitcairn Islands: atlas coverage and references
- Tokelau: atlas coverage and references
- Tuvalu: atlas coverage and references
- Vanuatu: atlas coverage and references
- Wallis and Futuna: atlas coverage and references
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 Oceania
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.
| Country / territory | Listed grid organisations | Markets / power pools | Recorded structure |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Samoa grid operators and electricity market | American Samoa Power Authority | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Australia grid operators and electricity market | AEMO | AEMO — National Electricity Market; AEMO — Wholesale Electricity Market | Liberalised market |
| Christmas Island grid operators and electricity market | Indian Ocean Territories Power Service | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands grid operators and electricity market | Indian Ocean Territories Power Service | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Cook Islands grid operators and electricity market | Te Aponga Uira | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Fiji grid operators and electricity market | Energy Fiji Limited | No exchange / pool link listed | Vertically integrated utility |
| French Polynesia grid operators and electricity market | Électricité de Tahiti | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Guam grid operators and electricity market | Guam Power Authority | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Kiribati grid operators and electricity market | Public Utilities Board | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Marshall Islands grid operators and electricity market | Marshalls Energy Company; Kwajalein Atoll Joint Utility Resource | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Micronesia grid operators and electricity market | Chuuk Public Utility Corporation; Kosrae Utilities Authority; Pohnpei Utilities Corporation; Yap State Public Service Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Nauru grid operators and electricity market | Nauru Utilities Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| New Caledonia grid operators and electricity market | Enercal; Électricité et Eau de Calédonie | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| New Zealand grid operators and electricity market | Transpower | Transpower system operator | Liberalised market |
| Niue grid operators and electricity market | Niue Power Corporation — PPA listing | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Norfolk Island grid operators and electricity market | Norfolk Island Electricity — Regional Council | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Northern Mariana Islands grid operators and electricity market | Commonwealth Utilities Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Palau grid operators and electricity market | Palau Public Utilities Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Papua New Guinea grid operators and electricity market | PNG Power | No exchange / pool link listed | Vertically integrated utility |
| Pitcairn Islands grid operators and electricity market | No operator link verified | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Samoa grid operators and electricity market | Electric Power Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Vertically integrated utility |
| Solomon Islands grid operators and electricity market | Solomon Power | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Tokelau grid operators and electricity market | Tokelau Department of Energy — island-system reference | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Tonga grid operators and electricity market | Tonga Power | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Tuvalu grid operators and electricity market | Tuvalu Electricity Corporation | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
| Vanuatu grid operators and electricity market | UNELCO | No exchange / pool link listed | Vertically integrated utility |
| Wallis and Futuna grid operators and electricity market | Électricité et Eau de Wallis-et-Futuna | No exchange / pool link listed | Island system |
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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