electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-time-series-historical-data-on-grid-electricity-generation-08e95201

Time Series Historical Data On Grid Electricity Generation | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

160 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2008-2017 - 1 indicator - Engineered by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 160 rows from Ghana Open Data, covering Time Series Historical Data On Grid Electricity Generation. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Energy datasets help analysts study supply, demand, prices, generation, access, and the infrastructure behind economic activity.

Source-provided context: Grid electricity generation by power plants and their installed capacities. This includes generation from hydro, thermal and renewable sources.

How To Read This Dataset

• —One row means: one indicator observation for one geography, time period, and optional source dimensions.
• —Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• —Best time column: year.
• —Time coverage basis: year.
• —Recommended join keys: country_iso3, year, indicator_id.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• —time-series-historical-data-on-grid-electricity-generation-updated-annua-08e95201 - Time series historical data on Grid Electricity Generation updated annually(sourceunitsunspecified)

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-time-series-historical-data-on-grid-electricity-generation-08e95201")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• —Canonical time field: year.
• —Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• —Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• —Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• —Source: Ghana Open Data
• —Publisher: Ghana official open data portal
• —Portal: http://data.gov.gh
• —Resource: Electricity generation from 2008 to 2017
• —License: CC BY 4.0
• —Retrieved/generated: 2026-07-18T20:13:01Z
• —Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-time-series-historical-data-on-grid-electricity-generation-08e95201

Transformations Applied

• —Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• —Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• —Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• —Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• —Track supply or price trends
• —Compare energy sources
• —Join with population, industry, or emissions data
• —Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• —Pivot to geography x period or indicator x period matrices
• —Check missingness before modeling
• —Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_time_series_historical_data_on_grid_electricity_generation_08e95201_2017,
  title        = {Time Series Historical Data On Grid Electricity Generation | Africa (Ghana Open Data)},
  author       = {Ghana official open data portal},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/time-series-historical-data-grid-electricity-generation-updated-annually},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-time-series-historical-data-on-grid-electricity-generation-08e95201}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data is published by Ghana official open data portal. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/dataset/time-series-historical-data-grid-electricity-generation-updated-annually