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Australia’s Electricity: Renewables Against Fossil Fuels
Share of electricity generation, monthly, %: all renewable sources and all fossil fuels
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Ember monthly electricity data (CC BY 4.0). Renewables are hydro, wind, solar and bioenergy; fossil fuels are coal, gas and other fossil fuels. Australia has no nuclear power, so the two add up to the whole. Shares are seasonal: rooftop and utility solar peak in the southern summer.
Australia’s grid, long one of the most coal-heavy in the developed world, now gets about half its electricity from renewables in some months, led by rooftop and utility-scale solar and wind.
What this chart reads
- Australia · Renewables Share of Electricity Generation (Monthly)as “Renewables”latest 2026-09-01
- Australia · Fossil Fuels Share of Electricity Generation (Monthly)as “Fossil fuels”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Australia · Renewables Share of Electricity Generation (Monthly). Source: Ember, electricity data (ember-energy.org/data), monthly file, CC BY 4.0. Attribution: "Ember (CC BY 4.0)". Palanor re-reads Ember's public CSV on every run, because Ember revises back data as official statistics land.
Australia · Fossil Fuels Share of Electricity Generation (Monthly). Source: Ember, electricity data (ember-energy.org/data), monthly file, CC BY 4.0. Attribution: "Ember (CC BY 4.0)". Palanor re-reads Ember's public CSV on every run, because Ember revises back data as official statistics land.
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