North America coal usage/consumption for 2022 was 18.26%, a 2.19% decline from 2021.
North America coal usage/consumption for 2021 was 20.44%, a 2.23% increase from 2020.
North America coal usage/consumption for 2020 was 18.21%, a 3.94% decline from 2019.
North America coal usage/consumption for 2019 was 22.15%, a 3.71% 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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: North America Coal Usage/Consumption Datasets (CSV).