United Kingdom - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in United Kingdom was 22.81 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 81.09 in 1960, while its lowest value was 22.81 in 2015.

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 81.09
1961 80.21
1962 80.01
1963 79.91
1964 78.64
1965 74.50
1966 72.18
1967 70.79
1968 71.75
1969 71.92
1970 68.81
1971 63.94
1972 55.27
1973 62.06
1974 54.64
1975 62.58
1976 65.34
1977 64.78
1978 65.69
1979 67.93
1980 73.18
1981 74.77
1982 71.90
1983 70.66
1984 45.67
1985 60.51
1986 67.66
1987 70.11
1988 66.89
1989 64.54
1990 64.97
1991 65.80
1992 60.64
1993 53.24
1994 49.64
1995 46.68
1996 42.16
1997 34.93
1998 34.65
1999 29.66
2000 32.67
2001 34.80
2002 32.68
2003 35.36
2004 34.06
2005 34.48
2006 38.25
2007 34.99
2008 32.68
2009 28.00
2010 28.75
2011 30.06
2012 40.05
2013 37.05
2014 30.31
2015 22.81

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use