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United Kingdom: Share of electricity generation from coal

0.11percent · 2025-99.5% since 2015

Electricity generated from coal as a share of total generation. Annual figures for United Kingdom from 1985 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20250.112
20240.668
20231.289
20221.83
20212.205
20201.837
20192.115
20185.043
20176.661
20169.042
201522.392
201429.65
201336.357
201239.242
201129.47
201028.16
200927.349
200831.978
200734.258
200637.468
200533.799
200433.456
200334.771
200232.094
200134.166
200031.812
199928.842
199833.903
199734.782
199641.973
199545.999
199449.406
199353.001
199260.316
199165.492
199064.563
198963.558
198865.854
198769.485
198666.881
198559.432

Source

Published by Ember, produced by Ember. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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Ember (2026). Share of electricity generation from coal. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ember-share-coal (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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