India - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in India was 75.31 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 75.31 in 2015, while its lowest value was 48.32 in 1978.

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
1971 49.09
1972 52.02
1973 49.39
1974 53.52
1975 51.33
1976 54.15
1977 52.99
1978 48.32
1979 49.88
1980 51.04
1981 53.46
1982 56.82
1983 57.28
1984 58.12
1985 62.36
1986 63.69
1987 68.86
1988 67.40
1989 68.05
1990 65.46
1991 67.07
1992 68.04
1993 70.05
1994 67.71
1995 69.94
1996 70.48
1997 68.93
1998 66.80
1999 66.96
2000 68.50
2001 69.42
2002 69.89
2003 67.83
2004 67.69
2005 66.86
2006 66.69
2007 65.48
2008 68.44
2009 66.97
2010 67.18
2011 66.76
2012 71.64
2013 72.52
2014 74.49
2015 75.31

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use