Australia - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Australia was 86.36 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 92.50 in 2009, while its lowest value was 74.33 in 1965.

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 79.95
1961 78.65
1962 78.77
1963 74.80
1964 76.57
1965 74.33
1966 79.58
1967 79.67
1968 81.11
1969 81.03
1970 81.47
1971 77.67
1972 78.68
1973 81.76
1974 80.42
1975 79.38
1976 79.65
1977 83.54
1978 83.35
1979 82.58
1980 86.01
1981 85.83
1982 86.48
1983 88.09
1984 88.77
1985 88.20
1986 88.07
1987 89.30
1988 89.13
1989 89.62
1990 90.34
1991 89.40
1992 89.93
1993 89.45
1994 89.81
1995 90.38
1996 90.77
1997 90.41
1998 91.57
1999 91.46
2000 91.62
2001 91.90
2002 92.14
2003 91.56
2004 91.81
2005 91.20
2006 90.70
2007 91.35
2008 91.88
2009 92.50
2010 91.39
2011 89.57
2012 89.41
2013 86.74
2014 85.09
2015 86.36

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use