France - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in France was 2.16 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 45.95 in 1964, while its lowest value was 2.16 in 2014.

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 36.47
1961 40.03
1962 44.78
1963 38.21
1964 45.95
1965 40.36
1966 38.17
1967 42.68
1968 40.77
1969 38.47
1970 30.55
1971 29.37
1972 22.57
1973 19.66
1974 19.00
1975 20.28
1976 28.37
1977 27.18
1978 28.48
1979 29.78
1980 27.35
1981 21.44
1982 23.97
1983 20.45
1984 16.32
1985 13.27
1986 9.64
1987 8.31
1988 7.49
1989 9.10
1990 8.49
1991 9.57
1992 8.20
1993 5.27
1994 5.09
1995 5.41
1996 6.08
1997 5.16
1998 7.36
1999 6.35
2000 5.77
2001 4.38
2002 4.88
2003 5.21
2004 4.79
2005 5.38
2006 4.64
2007 5.00
2008 4.65
2009 4.53
2010 4.66
2011 3.11
2012 3.70
2013 4.29
2014 2.16
2015 2.16

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use