SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Power
≈ 3.5 billion cars/yr16.0 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr24.1% of global tracked
The worst emitters in power: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- What is it?
- Power is electricity generation: burning coal, gas, oil or biomass to make electrons.
- Why does it emit?
- Fossil-fired plants release CO₂ directly from combustion; methane leaks from gas infrastructure.
- What’s it equivalent to?
- That’s about 3.5 billion cars driven for a year.
About this sector
The league tables below rank both the countries where this sector is largest and the companies whose biggest attributed sector is power. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.
16 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total49Countries ranked50Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1China= 1.4bn cars/yr6.6 Gt CO₂eNEW2India= 333M cars/yr1.5 Gt CO₂eNEW3USA= 325M cars/yr1.5 Gt CO₂eNEW4Russia= 186M cars/yr855 Mt CO₂eNEW5Japan= 98.4M cars/yr452 Mt CO₂eNEW6Indonesia= 76.7M cars/yr353 Mt CO₂eNEW7Saudi Arabia= 70.4M cars/yr324 Mt CO₂eNEW8South Korea= 58.1M cars/yr267 Mt CO₂eNEW9South Africa= 50.8M cars/yr234 Mt CO₂eNEW10Iran= 49.4M cars/yr227 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (49)
11Viet Nam= 44M cars/yr202 Mt CO₂eNEW12Germany= 40.2M cars/yr185 Mt CO₂eNEW13Taiwan= 35.8M cars/yr165 Mt CO₂eNEW14Australia= 35.6M cars/yr164 Mt CO₂eNEW15Mexico= 33.8M cars/yr155 Mt CO₂eNEW16Turkey= 31.2M cars/yr144 Mt CO₂eNEW17Kazakhstan= 28.4M cars/yr131 Mt CO₂eNEW18Malaysia= 28.1M cars/yr129 Mt CO₂eNEW19Iraq= 27.5M cars/yr127 Mt CO₂eNEW20Poland= 26.9M cars/yr124 Mt CO₂eNEW21Egypt= 24.3M cars/yr112 Mt CO₂eNEW22Pakistan= 22.1M cars/yr102 Mt CO₂eNEW23Canada= 21.4M cars/yr98.7 Mt CO₂eNEW24Philippines= 21.4M cars/yr98.5 Mt CO₂eNEW25Thailand= 20.8M cars/yr95.5 Mt CO₂eNEW26UAE= 17.9M cars/yr82.3 Mt CO₂eNEW27Italy= 15.4M cars/yr70.8 Mt CO₂eNEW28Bangladesh= 14.4M cars/yr66.3 Mt CO₂eNEW29Kuwait= 13.4M cars/yr61.8 Mt CO₂eNEW30Uzbekistan= 12.6M cars/yr58.1 Mt CO₂eNEW31Brazil= 12.4M cars/yr57.1 Mt CO₂eNEW32UK= 11.9M cars/yr54.8 Mt CO₂eNEW33Argentina= 11M cars/yr50.5 Mt CO₂eNEW34Ukraine= 10.1M cars/yr46.5 Mt CO₂eNEW35Algeria= 9.8M cars/yr45.2 Mt CO₂eNEW36Turkmenistan= 7.7M cars/yr35.5 Mt CO₂eNEW37Netherlands= 6.8M cars/yr31.1 Mt CO₂eNEW38Spain= 6.7M cars/yr31 Mt CO₂eNEW39Qatar= 6.5M cars/yr30.1 Mt CO₂eNEW40Libya= 5.7M cars/yr26.4 Mt CO₂eNEW41Colombia= 5M cars/yr23.1 Mt CO₂eNEW42France= 4.8M cars/yr22.2 Mt CO₂eNEW43Oman= 4.8M cars/yr22 Mt CO₂eNEW44Mongolia= 3.9M cars/yr17.9 Mt CO₂eNEW45Nigeria= 3.5M cars/yr16.1 Mt CO₂eNEW46Venezuela= 3.1M cars/yr14.2 Mt CO₂eNEW47Sudan= 884k cars/yr4.1 Mt CO₂eNEW48Tanzania= 668k cars/yr3.1 Mt CO₂eNEW49Ethiopia= 520 cars/yr2.4 kt CO₂eNEW
Top companies in this sector
1NTPC Ltd= 71.1M cars/yr327 Mt CO₂eNEW2Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd= 45.6M cars/yr210 Mt CO₂eNEW3Saudi Electricity Co= 40.4M cars/yr186 Mt CO₂eNEW5JERA Co Inc= 27.1M cars/yr125 Mt CO₂eNEW7Ministry of Electricity (Iraq)= 18.4M cars/yr84.4 Mt CO₂eNEW8Adani Power Ltd= 16.1M cars/yr74.2 Mt CO₂eNEW9Taiwan Power Co= 20M cars/yr92.1 Mt CO₂eNEW12OGK-2 PJSC= 14.4M cars/yr66.1 Mt CO₂eNEW13Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE= 12.7M cars/yr58.4 Mt CO₂eNEW14Kuzbassenergo JSC= 11.7M cars/yr53.6 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all companies (50)
16Inter RAO – Electric Power Generation JSC= 13.7M cars/yr63.2 Mt CO₂eNEW17Ministry of Electricity and Water and Renewable Energy (Kuwait)= 11.8M cars/yr54.2 Mt CO₂eNEW19Jindal Steel Ltd= 8.8M cars/yr40.5 Mt CO₂eNEW23Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd= 9.3M cars/yr42.8 Mt CO₂eNEW24Unipro PJSC= 9.3M cars/yr42.7 Mt CO₂eNEW26Andhra Pradesh Power Development Co Ltd= 6.9M cars/yr31.8 Mt CO₂eNEW27Vietnam Electricity LLC= 5.9M cars/yr27.1 Mt CO₂eNEW28Reliance Power Ltd= 8.1M cars/yr37.4 Mt CO₂eNEW30U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd= 6.5M cars/yr29.7 Mt CO₂eNEW31Shaanxi Qingshuichuan Energy Co Ltd= 4.5M cars/yr20.7 Mt CO₂eNEW32Tata Power Company Ltd= 4.6M cars/yr21.2 Mt CO₂eNEW34Damodar Valley Corp= 7.4M cars/yr34.2 Mt CO₂eNEW35Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand= 7.7M cars/yr35.2 Mt CO₂eNEW37Korea Southern Power Co Ltd= 7.9M cars/yr36.2 Mt CO₂eNEW38Electric Power Development Co Ltd= 8.2M cars/yr37.6 Mt CO₂eNEW39Korea Western Power Co Ltd= 8M cars/yr37 Mt CO₂eNEW40Turkmenenergo= 7.2M cars/yr32.9 Mt CO₂eNEW41The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd= 5.6M cars/yr25.7 Mt CO₂eNEW43PT PLN (Persero)= 7M cars/yr32 Mt CO₂eNEW46Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd= 6.2M cars/yr28.3 Mt CO₂eNEW48Mosenergo PJSC= 6.9M cars/yr31.8 Mt CO₂eNEW49Formosa Petrochemical Corp= 6.8M cars/yr31.1 Mt CO₂eNEW50Saline Water Conversion Corp= 6.1M cars/yr28.2 Mt CO₂eNEW51Société Algérienne de Production de l'Electricité SpA= 6.1M cars/yr28.1 Mt CO₂eNEW52Malakoff Corporation Bhd= 6M cars/yr27.4 Mt CO₂eNEW53PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna SA= 7.9M cars/yr36.1 Mt CO₂eNEW55Korea East-West Power Co Ltd= 7.1M cars/yr32.6 Mt CO₂eNEW57Alabama Power Co= 5.4M cars/yr24.8 Mt CO₂eNEW58TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd= 5.7M cars/yr26.3 Mt CO₂eNEW60Upper Egypt Electricity Production Co= 5.4M cars/yr25 Mt CO₂eNEW65Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corp Ltd= 5.2M cars/yr24.1 Mt CO₂eNEW66Korea Midland Power Co Ltd= 6.6M cars/yr30.3 Mt CO₂eNEW67Korea South-East Power Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yr29.5 Mt CO₂eNEW68Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc= 6.3M cars/yr29 Mt CO₂eNEW75General Electricity Company of Libya= 5M cars/yr23.1 Mt CO₂eNEW76Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yr14.7 Mt CO₂eNEW77Zhejiang Zheneng Jiahua Power Generator Co Ltd= 4.9M cars/yr22.6 Mt CO₂eNEW78CHN ENERGY Yuedian Taishan POWER Generationg Co Ltd= 4.9M cars/yr22.4 Mt CO₂eNEW79Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Co Ltd= 4.7M cars/yr21.6 Mt CO₂eNEW80Cairo Electricity Production Co= 4.4M cars/yr20.2 Mt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0