United States - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in United States was 34.23 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 57.68 in 1988, while its lowest value was 34.23 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/

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Year Value
1960 53.91
1961 53.73
1962 53.25
1963 54.39
1964 54.02
1965 54.63
1966 54.10
1967 52.45
1968 52.06
1969 49.45
1970 46.39
1971 44.79
1972 44.57
1973 46.16
1974 44.18
1975 44.30
1976 46.17
1977 46.11
1978 44.01
1979 47.67
1980 51.20
1981 52.83
1982 53.68
1983 55.04
1984 56.05
1985 57.22
1986 56.17
1987 57.64
1988 57.68
1989 54.12
1990 53.07
1991 52.60
1992 53.24
1993 53.40
1994 52.52
1995 51.50
1996 52.72
1997 53.81
1998 52.74
1999 52.12
2000 52.90
2001 51.63
2002 50.66
2003 51.38
2004 50.40
2005 50.46
2006 49.77
2007 48.99
2008 49.10
2009 45.44
2010 45.80
2011 43.35
2012 38.48
2013 39.94
2014 39.65
2015 34.23

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use