This dataset includes an estimation of the demand for electricity from households onto a geographic grid at 1km x 1km of spatial resolution.

Dataset mainly focus on the demand for electricity of rural residential and commercial, according to the WAPP 2013 (Miketa, A. and Merven, B., 2013) subdivision. Assuming that, in rural areas the electricity demand can be considered closely related to the number of inhabitants. The principal dis-aggregation algorithm, that estimates the electricity demand for each cell (x,y) of the geographic grid is based on:

Electricity demand(x,y) = electricity demand(capita) * number people(x,y)

where Electricity demand(x,y) corresponds to the demand for the cell at the x,y position, the electricity demand per capita is calculated at national level according to IRENA 2013 data, and the number of people (x,y) corresponds to the people living in the cell at the x,y position.

Data are expressed as electricity demand in KWh per year per cell for the year 2015