European Union coal usage/consumption for 2022 was 17.06%, a 1.53% increase from 2021.
European Union coal usage/consumption for 2021 was 15.53%, a 1.79% increase from 2020.
European Union coal usage/consumption for 2020 was 13.74%, a 3.14% decline from 2019.
European Union coal usage/consumption for 2019 was 16.88%, a 4.96% decline from 2018.
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.