Sri Lanka - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Sri Lanka was 51.52 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 70.76 in 2012, while its lowest value was 0.16 in 1990.

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 7.33
1972 13.97
1973 31.33
1974 7.23
1975 4.09
1976 5.66
1977 3.65
1978 1.37
1979 4.20
1980 11.33
1981 16.03
1982 22.17
1983 42.43
1984 7.52
1985 2.80
1986 0.26
1987 19.58
1988 7.22
1989 1.96
1990 0.16
1991 7.73
1992 18.08
1993 4.60
1994 6.79
1995 7.29
1996 28.21
1997 33.00
1998 31.11
1999 32.52
2000 54.20
2001 53.99
2002 61.82
2003 57.10
2004 63.86
2005 62.77
2006 51.00
2007 59.93
2008 58.46
2009 60.70
2010 46.88
2011 59.15
2012 70.76
2013 40.12
2014 60.80
2015 51.52

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use