South Africa - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in South Africa was 92.79 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 99.80 in 1971, while its lowest value was 91.29 in 1988.

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 99.80
1972 98.60
1973 98.47
1974 98.37
1975 98.50
1976 97.64
1977 97.58
1978 97.74
1979 98.73
1980 99.00
1981 98.55
1982 99.15
1983 99.51
1984 96.68
1985 95.80
1986 92.88
1987 94.83
1988 91.29
1989 91.46
1990 94.28
1991 93.32
1992 93.98
1993 95.73
1994 94.02
1995 93.62
1996 93.41
1997 92.84
1998 92.40
1999 93.13
2000 93.06
2001 93.75
2002 93.30
2003 94.11
2004 93.94
2005 94.67
2006 94.74
2007 95.21
2008 94.32
2009 94.12
2010 94.34
2011 93.88
2012 94.71
2013 93.82
2014 93.18
2015 92.79

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use