Canada - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Canada was 9.84 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 19.99 in 2001, while its lowest value was 3.38 in 1960.

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/

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Year Value
1960 3.38
1961 4.05
1962 7.10
1963 10.92
1964 11.89
1965 13.43
1966 12.35
1967 13.56
1968 15.11
1969 15.08
1970 17.93
1971 18.80
1972 17.15
1973 12.92
1974 12.27
1975 13.11
1976 13.72
1977 15.00
1978 14.56
1979 14.67
1980 16.02
1981 16.26
1982 17.86
1983 18.09
1984 19.21
1985 17.32
1986 15.30
1987 16.98
1988 18.14
1989 18.37
1990 17.06
1991 17.40
1992 17.30
1993 15.48
1994 15.59
1995 15.61
1996 15.71
1997 17.33
1998 19.03
1999 18.64
2000 19.42
2001 19.99
2002 19.60
2003 19.11
2004 16.88
2005 16.21
2006 15.25
2007 16.10
2008 14.87
2009 12.92
2010 13.17
2011 11.81
2012 10.12
2013 9.80
2014 9.92
2015 9.84

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use