Electricity Output and Consumption in Kilowatt Hours (KWh) Thousands, 2010 to 2023

Category	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Available Capacity	76,000	76,000	88,600	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400	88,400
Average No. of Domestic Comsumers	53,566	54,415	55,110	58,648	59,790	59,766	58,867	59,620	60,726	60,968	61,850	63,222	63,849	64,689
Average No. of Commercial Comsumers	6,493	6,583	6,574	7,096*	7,193*	7,128*	6,994*	6,991*	6,271*	7,267*	7,282*	7,412*	7,525*	7,539*
Average No. of Hotels	64	58	55	59	58	57	55	61	60	62	62	61	..	..
Average No. of Industrial Consumers	100	101	100	98	98	98	94	93	91	90	87	88	88	85
Street Lighting (accounts)	9	9	10	20	19	19	19	19	19	21	21	22	22	22
Sales (kWh x 1000)
Commercial Use (including Hotels)	106,525	122,098	122,840	193,199*	191,294*	192,442*	194,66*	202,770*	206,320*	210,114*	171,887*	186,399*	208,182*	216,947*
Domestic Use	104,209	113,506	112,272	112,743	111,922	116,133	123,839	127,732	126,918	130,156	136,506	137,541	134,950	139,616
Hotel Use	61,304	68,749	66,007	69,877	69,590	69,646	69,400	76,050	81,483	81,561	51,498	66,300	81,994	83,093
Industrial Use	28,919	18,761	17,679	17,624	17,673	17,999	18,519	18,256	17,494	18,326	17,764	18,743	20,498	20,813
Street Lighting	9,134	10,263	10,526	10,913	11,050	10,966	10,905	10,896	10,893	10342	10,297	10,190	10,034	9,601
Total Sales	310,091	333,377	329,324	334,479	331,939	337,540	348,229	359,654	361,623	368,938	336,473	352,874	373,663	386,977
Internal Use	14,127	14,599	14,511	14,706	13,918	13,715	13,770	13,196	12,288	12,325	13,059	12,846	12,256	12,337
Loss of transmission	36,033	37,234	36,948	33,791	33,574	30,013	29,432	27,450	25,317	26,658	22,067	24,498	23,486	24,181
Total Generated (Units generated/purchases (kWhx1000))	360,251	385,210	384,783	382,976	379,431	381,268	391,431	400,300	398,228	407,921	371,599	390,218	409,405	423,495
Growth in units generated	4.9%	1.1%	-0.1%	-0.5	-0.9%	0.5%	2.7%	2.3%	-0.3%	2.2%	-8.9%	5.0%	4.9%	3.4%
Growth in sales	5.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	-0.8%	1.7%	3.2%	3.3%	0.5%	20%	-8.8%	4.9%	5.9%	3.6%
Percentage losses (exclude prior year sales adjustments)	9.5%	9.7%	9.6%	8.9%	8.8%	7.9%	7.5%	6.9%	6.3%	7%	5.9%	6.3%	5.7%	5.7%
Percentage growth	1.1%	1.6%	1.1%	6.5%	1.9%	-0.1%	-1.5%	1.2%	0.8%	2%	1.3%	2.2%	1.0%	1.2%
Average Annual Consumption
Per Customer (kWh)
Domestic	2,124	2,086	2,037	1,922	1,872	1,943	2,104	2,142	2,090	2,135	2,207	2,176	2,114	2,158
Commercial Use (including Hotels)	28,769	28,738	29,091	27,226	26,594	26,998	27,876	28,754	31,913	28,913	23,604	25,148	27,665	28,777
Industrial	183,730	185,752	176,790	179,837	180,337	183,663	197,011	196,301	192,242	203,622	204,184	212,989	232,933	244,859
Diesel fuel consumed (Imp. Gal.)	15,961,441	19,712,324	19,541,743	19,448,764	19,402,934	19,612,984	19,938,352	20,491,272	20,251,915	20,618,895	18,574,877	19,757,946	20,750,985	21,122,702
	Source: St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC)
	* Includes hotels
	Last updated: 28/05/2024 by Olympia Joseph

Electricity Output and Consumption in Kilowatt Hours (KWh) Thousands, 2010 to 2023

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