North America - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in North America was 30.93 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 51.71 in 1988, while its lowest value was 30.93 in 2015.

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 47.49
1961 47.72
1962 47.85
1963 49.43
1964 49.08
1965 49.81
1966 49.18
1967 47.90
1968 47.84
1969 45.53
1970 43.12
1971 41.78
1972 41.33
1973 42.13
1974 40.12
1975 40.50
1976 42.18
1977 42.17
1978 40.19
1979 43.29
1980 46.49
1981 47.76
1982 48.64
1983 49.74
1984 50.66
1985 51.25
1986 49.99
1987 51.34
1988 51.71
1989 49.17
1990 48.34
1991 47.82
1992 48.29
1993 48.24
1994 47.38
1995 46.60
1996 47.68
1997 48.86
1998 48.38
1999 47.74
2000 48.50
2001 47.40
2002 46.60
2003 47.26
2004 46.14
2005 46.09
2006 45.44
2007 44.80
2008 44.74
2009 41.27
2010 41.81
2011 39.29
2012 34.79
2013 35.88
2014 35.65
2015 30.93

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use