Bulgaria - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Bulgaria was 50.40 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 90.59 in 1972, while its lowest value was 46.82 in 2002.

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
1971 89.67
1972 90.59
1973 88.29
1974 86.81
1975 80.16
1976 71.37
1977 68.32
1978 72.00
1979 70.68
1980 71.64
1981 65.55
1982 65.90
1983 63.26
1984 64.19
1985 63.09
1986 65.58
1987 65.56
1988 58.63
1989 61.07
1990 60.74
1991 61.76
1992 61.77
1993 58.12
1994 55.94
1995 53.16
1996 50.84
1997 51.89
1998 51.79
1999 51.09
2000 48.66
2001 51.10
2002 46.82
2003 52.01
2004 51.71
2005 47.67
2006 47.79
2007 59.08
2008 58.00
2009 55.19
2010 54.25
2011 59.47
2012 54.64
2013 50.98
2014 50.41
2015 50.40

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use