Belgium - Electricity production

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Belgium was 39.21 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 99.60 in 1971, while its lowest value was 30.21 in 1986.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

See also:

Year Value
1960 98.86
1961 98.82
1962 99.05
1963 98.98
1964 99.19
1965 98.73
1966 98.65
1967 98.60
1968 98.85
1969 99.14
1970 99.01
1971 99.60
1972 99.48
1973 99.11
1974 98.83
1975 82.73
1976 78.35
1977 73.52
1978 74.30
1979 76.97
1980 75.27
1981 72.97
1982 67.47
1983 52.46
1984 47.25
1985 37.43
1986 30.21
1987 31.11
1988 31.73
1989 36.94
1990 37.81
1991 38.32
1992 37.44
1993 38.54
1994 41.32
1995 41.86
1996 40.60
1997 37.56
1998 42.04
1999 39.34
2000 39.63
2001 38.42
2002 38.92
2003 40.96
2004 41.06
2005 40.93
2006 39.85
2007 39.45
2008 38.63
2009 39.80
2010 40.26
2011 35.02
2012 35.95
2013 31.94
2014 33.48
2015 39.21

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use