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Residential electricity consumption across Saudi Arabia reached 161,200 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2024, up 6% compared to 2023.<\/p>\n
The percentage of the population benefiting from electricity services reached 100%, according to the household energy statistics issued by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).<\/p>\n
\t\t\tDevelopment of Residential Electricity Consumption<\/p>\n
\t\t\tPeriod<\/p>\n
\t\t\tQuantity (‘000 GWh)<\/p>\n
\t\t\tAnnual Change<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2018<\/p>\n
\t\t\t263.04<\/p>\n
\t\t\t—<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2019<\/p>\n
\t\t\t187.49<\/p>\n
\t\t\t(29%)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2020<\/p>\n
\t\t\t192.48<\/p>\n
\t\t\t+3%<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2021<\/p>\n
\t\t\t177.33<\/p>\n
\t\t\t(8%)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2022<\/p>\n
\t\t\t171.31<\/p>\n
\t\t\t(3%)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2023<\/p>\n
\t\t\t152.78<\/p>\n
\t\t\t(11%)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t2024<\/p>\n
\t\t\t161.21<\/p>\n
\t\t\t+6%<\/p>\n
Riyadh recorded the highest residential electricity consumption with 45,000 GWh in 2024… \u200e Residential electricity consumption across Saudi Arabia reached 161,200 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2024, up 6%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",665,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024-300x158.png",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",640,337,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",640,337,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",665,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",665,350,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",665,350,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024.png",665,350,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203428-residential-electricity-use-at-161000-gwh-in-2024-590x350.png",590,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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