Euro area - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Euro area was 22.06 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 50.19 in 1962, while its lowest value was 20.07 in 2010.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. 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 48.32
1961 49.22
1962 50.19
1963 47.07
1964 48.18
1965 44.72
1966 41.66
1967 43.22
1968 42.33
1969 40.57
1970 40.10
1971 40.33
1972 37.24
1973 34.85
1974 34.15
1975 32.90
1976 36.05
1977 34.75
1978 34.98
1979 34.97
1980 35.90
1981 35.97
1982 37.83
1983 37.94
1984 36.72
1985 35.19
1986 33.92
1987 32.96
1988 32.12
1989 32.87
1990 32.71
1991 31.65
1992 30.61
1993 29.40
1994 29.25
1995 29.24
1996 28.17
1997 27.44
1998 27.68
1999 26.80
2000 27.31
2001 26.22
2002 26.99
2003 26.79
2004 26.06
2005 25.11
2006 24.20
2007 24.66
2008 21.86
2009 20.99
2010 20.07
2011 21.10
2012 22.66
2013 22.38
2014 21.80
2015 22.06

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use