Energy
01
17.1 billion kilowatt-hours in a month.
That is what Malaysia's three grids delivered in June 2026, the latest month in the official feed — +6.6% on the same month a year earlier. This chapter reads the national meter: how much, when, and who. What generates it is the climate chapter's story.
Consumption · June 2026
17,076 GWh
total metered consumption, all three grids, latest month
Change in a year
+6.6%
June 2026 vs the same month a year earlier
Households on the grid · 2024
9.81M
households with electricity at home, up from 7.12M in 2011 — a count, not a rate
Per person · 2025
5,640 kWh
2025 consumption ÷ DOSM's 2025 mid-year estimate of 34.2 million people
Official latestMonthly official figures published in arrears, not a live meter — the source itself marks its most recent six months provisional. The feed's unit is millions of kilowatt-hours, which this page writes as GWh; they are the same quantity.
TNB / SESB / Sarawak Energy / Suruhanjaya Tenaga / DOSM — electricity_consumption & electricity_supply (monthly, all three grids), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Monthly consumption and supply by sector, January 2018–June 2026. The catalogue's unit is millions of kWh, shown here as GWh (they are the same thing). The source notes the most recent six months are provisional and may be revised; data as of 2026-06-30 23:59. Consumption here is metered use — not generation, and not capacity.
The rhythm
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A country-sized appliance that never switches off.
Every month since January 2018, plotted from the feed. Averaged across 8 full years (2018–2025), the heaviest months are May, October, August; the lightest are February and June. The March–May average runs 4.8% above December–February.
The average year
Mean consumption per calendar month, 2018–2025. February sits lowest partly because it is the shortest month on the bill.
The swing is modest — a grid this size hums more than it surges — but it is real: the March–May inter-monsoon months run 4.8% heavier than December–February, the stretch where the northeast monsoon and the year's shortest month both land. The meter records that coincidence; it does not explain it. For what the thermometer was doing in those same months, see the climate chapter's temperature section.
Who uses it
03
Most of the grid is not at home.
In June 2026, homes drew 23.6% of the total — 25% of billed (local) consumption. The rest went to the feed's "commercial" category, which by the dataset's own arithmetic is every billed customer that is not a household, plus the losses and exports it names outright.
| Category | GWh | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial | 12,112 | 70.9% |
| Domestic (households) | 4,032 | 23.6% |
| Losses | 854 | 5.0% |
| Exports | 78 | 0.5% |
June 2026, GWh. The dataset publishes two billed categories — domestic and commercial — plus losses and exports; industry is not broken out separately. Shares are of the month's total.
A single month can flatter either side, so the steadier reading is the trailing year: over July 2025 – June 2026, the commercial category took 139,520 GWh against 45,961 GWh for households — 3.0 units of work and commerce for every unit of home life, with losses (12,394 GWh) larger than exports and imports combined.
Did you know
The grid lost 12,394 GWh on the way to the meter in a year.
Over the twelve months to June 2026, losses came to 6.2% of the total — roughly one unit lost for every 3.7 units every household in the country consumed. Losses are a named line in the dataset, not a hidden one.
Computed from electricity_consumption (losses vs local domestic), July 2025 – June 2026
The deepest month in the record is April 2020.
Consumption fell to 11,685 GWh — 18.7% below the same month a year earlier. The record high, 17,563 GWh, came in May 2026: the gap between the floor and the ceiling of the record is 5,878 GWh.
Computed from electricity_consumption, January 2018–June 2026
Malaysia sells electricity across its borders; it buys almost none.
Over the same twelve months, 926 GWh flowed out as exports while imports totalled 279 GWh. Both are small next to the 198,801 GWh used at home — this grid overwhelmingly powers itself.
Computed from electricity_consumption (exports) & electricity_supply (imports), July 2025 – June 2026
Deep data
03.3
Consumption is not generation, and neither is capacity.
This chapter meters what leaves the socket: 17,076 GWh consumed in June 2026, against 17,076 GWh supplied — the two reconcile because losses and exports are named lines, not leaks. What fuels the power stations (generation) and what they could produce flat-out (capacity) are different ledgers, kept in the climate chapter as documented figures.
Consumption series
102 months
January 2018 – June 2026, monthly, refetched daily
Grid operators in the feed
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the source names TNB (Peninsular Malaysia), SESB (Sabah) and Sarawak Energy (Sarawak) — one national table, three grids
Households with electricity · 2024
9.81M
+37.8% since 2011 — a count of homes, because the dataset publishes no rate
Growth across full years
+18.1%
2018 (163,488 GWh) → 2025 (193,007 GWh)
Three grids, one table
Malaysia has no single national grid. The dataset's own description names the three operators — TNB for Peninsular Malaysia, SESB for Sabah, Sarawak Energy for Sarawak — and publishes their combined figure. State-by-state consumption is not in the open feed, so this page does not invent it.
What “access” counts here
A count of households with electricity at home — 9.81M in 2024, of which 87% are in Peninsular Malaysia. The dataset carries no total-household denominator, so the familiar “99% electrified” style of claim cannot honestly be computed from it, and is not.
Why this matters for the bill
The tariff a household pays rides on this system — how much is used, when, and what losses the grid carries. Prices themselves are the cost-of-living chapter's territory; the meter is this one's.
TNB / SESB / Sarawak Energy / Suruhanjaya Tenaga / DOSM — electricity_consumption & electricity_supply (monthly, all three grids), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Monthly consumption and supply by sector, January 2018–June 2026. The catalogue's unit is millions of kWh, shown here as GWh (they are the same thing). The source notes the most recent six months are provisional and may be revised; data as of 2026-06-30 23:59. Consumption here is metered use — not generation, and not capacity.
TNB / SESB / Sarawak Energy / Suruhanjaya Tenaga — electricity_access (households with electricity at home), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
A COUNT of households with electricity at home, 2011–2024 — the dataset carries no household denominator, so no percentage is claimed. Its regional categories follow the three grid operators: Semenanjung Malaysia (TNB), Sabah (SESB) and Sarawak (Sarawak Energy).
The meter is half the energy story. The other half — what generates each kilowatt-hour, and the pledge to change it — is told in Climate; what a unit of it costs a household belongs to Cost of Living.