France - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in France was 6.06 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 68.46 in 1976, while its lowest value was 4.82 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 45.33
1961 51.19
1962 57.85
1963 51.79
1964 63.69
1965 54.84
1966 51.10
1967 58.17
1968 55.48
1969 57.12
1970 57.02
1971 62.21
1972 62.48
1973 65.35
1974 61.63
1975 57.34
1976 68.46
1977 54.90
1978 56.00
1979 55.47
1980 48.90
1981 35.32
1982 35.26
1983 27.38
1984 20.11
1985 16.25
1986 11.93
1987 10.49
1988 9.55
1989 12.74
1990 11.29
1991 13.36
1992 10.92
1993 7.31
1994 7.03
1995 7.77
1996 8.42
1997 7.68
1998 10.63
1999 9.74
2000 9.26
2001 8.25
2002 9.23
2003 9.93
2004 9.64
2005 10.80
2006 9.71
2007 9.99
2008 9.43
2009 9.28
2010 9.85
2011 8.54
2012 8.71
2013 7.77
2014 4.82
2015 6.06

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use