electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sale-c850b4f8

Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island of Mauritius and Rodrigues | Africa (Mauritius official open data)

383 rows - 1 Africa country - 1990-2020 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mauritius as ML-ready Parquet. The CSV is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the source file stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island of Mauritius and Rodrigues
• Publisher: MDPA
• Resource: Plant-Capacity-Peak-Demand-Electricity-Generation-Sales-and-Consumption-for-Mauritius-and-Rodrigues.csv
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MUS	383	1990	2020	Mauritius

Indicators or Resource Contents

• plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sales-for-island-o-1ec9067b - Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island of Mauritius and Rodrigues - capacity
• plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sales-for-island-o-92194ab7 - Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island of Mauritius and Rodrigues - generation

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	object	Stable indicator identifier.	plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sales-for-island-o
indicator_name	object	Human-readable indicator name.	Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island
country_iso3	object	ISO3 country code.	MUS
country_name	object	Country name.	Mauritius
year	Int64	Observation year.	1990
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	297.09
unit	object	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_type	string	Source dimension.	Plant Capacity
dimension_category	string	Source dimension.	Installed
dimension_sub_category	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_island	string	Source dimension.	Mauritius
source_provider	object	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	object	Source package title.	Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island
source_resource	object	Source resource title.	Plant-Capacity-Peak-Demand-Electricity-Generation-Sales-and-Consumption-
source_package_id	object	CKAN package UUID.	91d6ea83-7831-4379-9386-bd4a307ac582
source_resource_id	object	CKAN resource UUID.	e0778d53-0da8-40e3-b1b4-2a6862c228c1
source_url	object	Original CSV URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/91d6ea83-7831-4379-9386-bd4a307ac582/reso
license_id	object	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	object	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-16T19:23:24Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sale-c850b4f8")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MUS"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_plant_capacity_peak_demand_electricity_generation_and_sale_c850_2020,
  title        = {Plant Capacity, Peak Demand, Electricity Generation and Sales for Island of Mauritius and Rodrigues | Africa (Mauritius official open data)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sales-island-mauritius-and-rodrigues},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-and-sale-c850b4f8}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data (c) MDPA. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-16 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/91d6ea83-7831-4379-9386-bd4a307ac582/resource/e0778d53-0da8-40e3-b1b4-2a6862c228c1/download/plant-capacity-peak-demand-electricity-generation-sales-and-consumption-for-mauritius-and-rodrig.csv