India - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in India was 81.89 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 84.77 in 2002, while its lowest value was 54.65 in 1978.

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
1971 55.98
1972 59.82
1973 56.90
1974 60.76
1975 58.18
1976 60.16
1977 59.27
1978 54.65
1979 57.13
1980 58.84
1981 60.25
1982 64.37
1983 64.78
1984 66.23
1985 69.90
1986 71.13
1987 76.34
1988 73.92
1989 75.44
1990 73.41
1991 75.46
1992 77.25
1993 78.95
1994 77.34
1995 80.86
1996 82.19
1997 81.85
1998 80.93
1999 82.31
2000 83.44
2001 83.48
2002 84.77
2003 83.79
2004 83.02
2005 80.95
2006 80.02
2007 80.05
2008 81.70
2009 82.28
2010 81.24
2011 79.63
2012 81.29
2013 79.72
2014 80.90
2015 81.89

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use