New Zealand - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in New Zealand was 19.79 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 36.32 in 2001, while its lowest value was 4.99 in 1967.

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 14.42
1961 13.71
1962 5.54
1963 12.64
1964 8.11
1965 7.13
1966 6.39
1967 4.99
1968 5.09
1969 11.92
1970 9.49
1971 7.14
1972 11.82
1973 16.04
1974 16.19
1975 10.14
1976 23.10
1977 26.30
1978 20.19
1979 9.01
1980 9.61
1981 10.59
1982 21.96
1983 17.97
1984 20.84
1985 23.40
1986 18.28
1987 18.68
1988 16.97
1989 21.88
1990 19.79
1991 22.61
1992 27.21
1993 22.78
1994 17.76
1995 15.96
1996 20.75
1997 29.73
1998 24.18
1999 30.30
2000 28.33
2001 36.32
2002 30.28
2003 33.78
2004 27.73
2005 35.58
2006 35.35
2007 34.29
2008 35.61
2009 28.16
2010 26.68
2011 23.85
2012 28.05
2013 25.62
2014 20.67
2015 19.79

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use