United States - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in United States was 67.08 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 83.23 in 1966, while its lowest value was 67.08 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 81.48
1961 81.49
1962 80.83
1963 82.36
1964 82.47
1965 82.10
1966 83.23
1967 81.92
1968 83.07
1969 82.44
1970 83.09
1971 82.10
1972 82.14
1973 81.82
1974 78.12
1975 75.63
1976 76.93
1977 77.92
1978 74.97
1979 76.37
1980 77.31
1981 77.07
1982 74.03
1983 73.33
1984 73.47
1985 73.22
1986 71.78
1987 73.04
1988 72.72
1989 71.60
1990 69.06
1991 68.86
1992 69.55
1993 70.14
1994 70.26
1995 68.81
1996 68.48
1997 70.53
1998 71.28
1999 70.64
2000 71.59
2001 72.20
2002 70.99
2003 71.29
2004 71.39
2005 72.10
2006 71.33
2007 71.97
2008 71.39
2009 69.45
2010 70.28
2011 68.42
2012 68.86
2013 67.82
2014 67.46
2015 67.08

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use