Energy in Burundi


Energy in Burundi is a growing industry with tremendous potential.
, Burundi consumes a total of 382.70 million kilowatt hours of electric energy per year.
The country produces locally 79% of the electricity it consumes, with the rest imported from other countries. Its most important power source is hydroelectric power, representing 95% of total production. It also uses energy from other renewable and coal power plants.
Burundi has the world's lowest carbon footprint per capita at 0.027 tons per capita in CO2 emissions as of 2019.

Electricity

Burundi's total production of electricity was of 232 gigawatt hours in 2018. The main source came from a total of nine dams supplying the major part of the electric energy and 100 GWh coming from geothermal and thermal sources. Consumption in 2018 was estimated at 315.6 GWh of which 273 GWh where consumed in Bujumbura, 18.7 GWh in Gitega and 23.9 GWh by the rest of the country.

Petroleum

Burundi imports all of its petroleum products from Kenya and Tanzania, and has no known reserves of petroleum or natural gas., consumption of oil was estimated at 3,000 barrels per day. Burundi was estimated to have no known consumption of natural gas in 2001. A subsidiary of BP has an oil exploratory concession in and around Lake Tanganyika.

Wood and peat

and peat account for 94% of energy consumption in Burundi. Peat offers an alternative to increasingly scarce firewood and charcoal as a domestic energy source. The government is promoting peat production and is fostering the development of renewable energy resources, such as solar electricity and biogas.