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 urban residential, commercial, and small industries, according to the WAPP 2013 (Miketa, A. and Merven, B., 2013) subdivision. Dataset does not include demand from heavy industry (e.g. mining), which connects to generation at a high voltage and generally requires less transmission and no distribution infrastructure.

Taking that into consideration, 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 is expressed as electricity demand in MWh per year per cell for the year 2015