European Union - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in European Union was 41.53 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 74.80 in 1976, while its lowest value was 40.21 in 2014.

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 49.49
1961 51.57
1962 54.35
1963 53.43
1964 57.24
1965 56.76
1966 55.79
1967 58.25
1968 59.71
1969 62.05
1970 63.87
1971 73.66
1972 73.43
1973 74.71
1974 73.58
1975 71.33
1976 74.80
1977 69.21
1978 69.73
1979 68.97
1980 68.67
1981 64.51
1982 63.71
1983 61.39
1984 57.41
1985 54.39
1986 53.55
1987 52.54
1988 50.64
1989 52.83
1990 53.17
1991 52.56
1992 51.63
1993 50.34
1994 50.64
1995 50.88
1996 50.67
1997 50.09
1998 50.72
1999 50.59
2000 50.64
2001 49.69
2002 51.26
2003 52.35
2004 51.14
2005 51.66
2006 51.75
2007 52.34
2008 50.73
2009 49.20
2010 47.56
2011 47.56
2012 45.68
2013 42.73
2014 40.21
2015 41.53

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use