European Union - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in European Union was 25.64 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 44.34 in 1962, while its lowest value was 24.84 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 43.00
1961 43.48
1962 44.34
1963 42.18
1964 42.86
1965 41.59
1966 39.32
1967 40.66
1968 39.85
1969 38.22
1970 37.53
1971 42.62
1972 40.33
1973 38.80
1974 38.28
1975 37.67
1976 39.65
1977 38.68
1978 38.93
1979 38.97
1980 40.25
1981 39.02
1982 41.17
1983 41.21
1984 40.13
1985 39.04
1986 38.07
1987 37.10
1988 36.26
1989 36.69
1990 36.48
1991 35.75
1992 34.80
1993 33.85
1994 33.77
1995 33.50
1996 33.06
1997 31.97
1998 31.70
1999 30.81
2000 31.62
2001 30.49
2002 31.02
2003 31.44
2004 30.16
2005 29.11
2006 28.89
2007 29.24
2008 26.64
2009 25.83
2010 24.84
2011 26.01
2012 26.59
2013 26.31
2014 25.60
2015 25.64

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use