Coal-fired electricity generation growth
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Global · 2020
Coal-fired electricity generation growth worldwide was about -5% in 2020 (IEA).
Coal-fired electricity generation growth: every country and year, and how it is measured
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- IEA
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- T1 Official
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- 15 Sep 2026
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- Verified
What the source says
Coal-fired generation is estimated to fall by around 5% in 2020, the largest decrease on record, bringing it back to levels last seen in 2012.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2020). Electricity Market Report. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMD
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Electricity Market Report." 2020, https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMD.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Electricity Market Report." 2020. https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMD.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2020coalmbjpmd, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Electricity Market Report}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMD}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Electricity Market Report
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- Report
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- Locator
- About this report
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
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- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
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- Verified
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- Editorial review
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- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
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