Uruguay - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Uruguay was 11.44 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 58.57 in 1972, while its lowest value was 0.13 in 2003.

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 38.70
1972 58.57
1973 38.65
1974 42.56
1975 54.54
1976 54.40
1977 45.76
1978 46.81
1979 56.15
1980 24.17
1981 20.79
1982 18.16
1983 1.84
1984 1.30
1985 1.92
1986 1.08
1987 3.39
1988 21.78
1989 31.24
1990 5.05
1991 12.10
1992 10.24
1993 7.77
1994 1.21
1995 6.45
1996 12.91
1997 8.83
1998 3.88
1999 22.89
2000 6.62
2001 0.21
2002 0.32
2003 0.13
2004 18.42
2005 12.50
2006 35.13
2007 12.94
2008 39.09
2009 31.26
2010 12.38
2011 27.96
2012 38.26
2013 19.15
2014 9.27
2015 11.44

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use