United Kingdom - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in United Kingdom was 53.18 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 96.12 in 1960, while its lowest value was 53.18 in 2015.

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 96.12
1961 95.64
1962 95.36
1963 94.45
1964 93.58
1965 90.13
1966 87.99
1967 86.67
1968 86.64
1969 86.41
1970 87.70
1971 87.92
1972 87.53
1973 88.68
1974 86.17
1975 87.41
1976 85.53
1977 84.42
1978 85.61
1979 85.75
1980 85.60
1981 84.71
1982 82.15
1983 80.23
1984 79.33
1985 77.88
1986 78.67
1987 80.32
1988 77.70
1989 75.54
1990 77.45
1991 76.36
1992 73.91
1993 70.39
1994 70.59
1995 71.05
1996 71.15
1997 69.76
1998 69.89
1999 71.17
2000 74.48
2001 73.28
2002 73.52
2003 74.17
2004 75.39
2005 74.43
2006 75.61
2007 78.46
2008 80.22
2009 74.23
2010 76.38
2011 71.07
2012 68.47
2013 64.59
2014 60.97
2015 53.18

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use