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Bulgaria: Electricity production from coal sources

22.80percent · 2024-49.2% since 2014

The share of electricity production from coal sources of total electricity production. 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. Annual figures for Bulgaria from 1990 to 2024.

19902024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202422.803
202329.147
202243.139
202135.917
202033.204
201938.901
201839.838
201745.852
201642.766
201545.751
201444.862
201344.259
201248.37
201154.21
201048.456
200949.118
200851.558
200751.881
200641.895
200541.981
200445.907
200345.685
200240.706
200144.935
200042.046
199943.103
199844.513
199745.107
199640.727
199542.023
199444.969
199345.788
199250.593
199151.392
199050.26

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Energy Agency. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Electricity production from coal sources. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-electricity-production-from-coal-sources (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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