Australia - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Australia was 62.87 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 84.00 in 1998, while its lowest value was 61.16 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/

See also:

Year Value
1960 74.42
1961 73.00
1962 75.58
1963 71.86
1964 72.71
1965 70.75
1966 75.76
1967 75.67
1968 76.72
1969 76.14
1970 75.97
1971 71.03
1972 71.93
1973 74.88
1974 67.78
1975 68.82
1976 68.36
1977 72.43
1978 70.75
1979 69.81
1980 73.25
1981 71.14
1982 71.07
1983 73.13
1984 73.21
1985 74.69
1986 74.06
1987 76.54
1988 76.72
1989 77.28
1990 78.74
1991 80.35
1992 81.14
1993 80.44
1994 81.12
1995 80.16
1996 82.17
1997 82.96
1998 84.00
1999 82.75
2000 83.03
2001 83.29
2002 77.11
2003 77.49
2004 77.66
2005 79.53
2006 79.62
2007 77.05
2008 75.83
2009 74.90
2010 71.33
2011 67.99
2012 68.55
2013 63.72
2014 61.16
2015 62.87

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use