Ireland - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Ireland was 17.35 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 58.76 in 1989, while its lowest value was 12.62 in 2010.

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 53.32
1961 48.47
1962 45.16
1963 39.97
1964 33.55
1965 29.04
1966 28.16
1967 27.91
1968 37.14
1969 39.24
1970 32.36
1971 29.74
1972 25.97
1973 24.92
1974 24.09
1975 25.29
1976 27.35
1977 24.98
1978 21.13
1979 17.11
1980 16.40
1981 15.41
1982 16.89
1983 17.90
1984 20.23
1985 21.50
1986 26.35
1987 55.01
1988 58.36
1989 58.76
1990 41.59
1991 39.20
1992 42.19
1993 40.98
1994 39.72
1995 39.87
1996 36.96
1997 34.47
1998 32.28
1999 26.80
2000 28.80
2001 28.67
2002 27.46
2003 24.95
2004 24.70
2005 24.93
2006 21.70
2007 19.75
2008 17.20
2009 14.33
2010 12.62
2011 14.52
2012 18.51
2013 16.75
2014 15.33
2015 17.35

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use