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Germany: Electricity production from coal sources

22.11percent · 2025-49.5% 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 Germany from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202522.106
202422.421
202325.552
202232.732
202129.499
202024.971
201929.956
201837.312
201738.674
201642.001
201543.762
201445.382
201346.815
201245.537
201144.425
201043.192
200943.632
200844.515
200748.069
200646.62
200547.785
200449.895
200351.629
200252.258
200151.44
200052.756
199951.802
199853.729
199753.016
199654.497
199555.16
199456.106
199356.965
199256.721
199158.729
199058.479

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Energy Agency. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Electricity production from coal sources. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-electricity-production-from-coal-sources (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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