Paraguay now uses most of the power it makes
Electricity demand as a share of generation, Paraguay, 2015–2025, Ember. The rest is net exports, mostly hydropower.
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Share of Paraguay's electricity used at home in 2025, up from 26% in 2015.
The year home use first passed half, at 62%. Demand doubled from 14.8 TWh in 2015 to 29.7 TWh in 2025.
Paraguay's power surplus for export since 2015, from 41.1 to 15.7 TWh. Demand rose 15 TWh while dry years cut generation by 11 TWh.
the numbers & method
| used at home (%) | net exports (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | 74 |
| 2020 | 40 | 60 |
| 2024 | 62 | 38 |
| 2025 | 65 | 35 |
Claim types Fact · Estimate
Ember yearly electricity data (total generation, version 6ce219dd20; demand, version a94aeae836), read from Ember's data as loaded into the progrss vault. Ember counts Paraguay's half of the binational Itaipu and Yacyretá dams as Paraguay's generation. Net exports here = generation minus demand, using Ember's demand definition (generation plus net imports); no separate trade series is charted. TWh, generation / demand: 2015 55.89 / 14.76; 2019 49.59 / 17.84; 2020 46.63 / 18.63; 2023 53.04 / 22.65; 2024 42.41 / 26.41; 2025 45.35 / 29.65. Shares and surplus are progrss calculations: 26.4% (2015), 36.0% (2019), 40.0% (2020), 42.7% (2023), 62.3% (2024), 65.4% (2025). Both sides moved: of the 25.4 TWh fall in the surplus since 2015, about 14.9 TWh came from higher demand and 10.5 TWh from lower generation; the 2024 jump was mostly a dry year (generation down 10.6 TWh, demand up 3.8 TWh), and the share rose again in 2025. Ember's latest-year values can be provisional. The plate names no cause for the rise in demand. Licence: Ember, CC BY 4.0.
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