Natural gas and oil on the Falkland Islands

Energy consumption on the Falkland Islands

The most important figure in the energy balance of the Falkland Islands is the total consumption of

19.13 million kWh

of electric energy per year. Per capita this is an average of 5,983 kWh.

The Falkland Islands can completely be self-sufficient with domestically produced energy. The total production of all electric energy producing facilities is 20 m kWh, also 105 percent of own requirements. The rest of the domestically produced energy is either exported into other countries or unused. Along with pure consumption, the production, imports and exports play an important role. Other energy sources, such as natural gas or crude oil are also used.

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Energy Balance

Electricity	total	Falkland Islands per capita	USA per capita
Own consumption	19.13 m kWh	5,982.80 kWh	11,744.38 kWh
Production	20.13 m kWh	6,295.50 kWh	12,198.66 kWh

Production capacities per energy source

The given production capacities for electric energy have a theoretical value, which can only be obtained under ideal conditions. They are measuring the generatable amount of energy, that would be reached under permanent and full use of all capacities of all power plants.

In practice this isn't possible, because e.g. solar collectors are less efficient under clouds. Also wind- and water-power plants are not always operating under full load. All these values are only useful in relation to other energy sources or countries.

Energy source	total on the Falkland Islands	Percentage on the Falkland Islands	Percentage USA	per capita on the Falkland Islands	per capita USA
Fossil fuels	64.27 m kWh	66,7 %	59,9 %	20,097.60 kWh	2.06 kWh
Nuclear power	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	19,5 %	0.00 kWh	0.67 kWh
Solar energy	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	3,2 %	0.00 kWh	0.11 kWh
Wind power	32.09 m kWh	33,3 %	8,3 %	10,033.73 kWh	0.29 kWh
Water power	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	7,0 %	0.00 kWh	0.24 kWh
Tidal Power Plants	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	0,0 %	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Geothermics	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	0,4 %	0.00 kWh	0.01 kWh
Biomass	0.00 kWh	0,0 %	1,7 %	0.00 kWh	0.06 kWh

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