Euro area - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Euro area was 40.68 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 75.13 in 1976, while its lowest value was 38.96 in 2014.

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 55.55
1961 59.07
1962 62.66
1963 60.77
1964 66.15
1965 63.42
1966 61.38
1967 64.82
1968 66.05
1969 67.53
1970 69.65
1971 73.14
1972 72.90
1973 74.89
1974 73.18
1975 70.91
1976 75.13
1977 67.82
1978 68.84
1979 67.97
1980 67.71
1981 63.34
1982 61.83
1983 59.22
1984 54.52
1985 51.12
1986 49.92
1987 49.39
1988 47.56
1989 50.46
1990 51.17
1991 50.59
1992 49.43
1993 47.67
1994 47.94
1995 48.70
1996 47.65
1997 47.98
1998 49.29
1999 49.26
2000 49.03
2001 48.07
2002 49.89
2003 50.32
2004 49.93
2005 51.10
2006 50.41
2007 51.18
2008 49.72
2009 48.11
2010 46.40
2011 46.29
2012 44.92
2013 41.47
2014 38.96
2015 40.68

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use