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France: Electricity production from coal sources

0.36percent · 2025-85.6% since 2015

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 France from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20250.361
20240.384
20230.515
20221.235
20211.321
20200.928
20191.028
20181.81
20172.705
20162.169
20152.51
20142.414
20134.521
20124.21
20113.465
20104.622
20094.482
20084.607
20074.949
20064.593
20055.33
20044.744
20035.163
20024.828
20014.349
20005.715
19996.297
19987.298
19975.124
19966.032
19955.373
19945.063
19935.236
19928.138
19919.484
19908.419

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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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