Australia Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 82.517 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 237,388,272,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 0 kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 12,607,778,000 kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 75.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 8.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 8.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 6.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 1.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 504.051 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 99.048 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 390.808 million metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 583,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 149.079 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 442,500 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 1,174,100 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 197,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 356,900 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 2.446 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

462,500 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

64,120 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

619,600 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 142,104,321,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 41,905,381,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

exports: 101,766,728,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 6,295,646,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 3,228,115,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

note: Australia was the largest exporter of LNG in the world in 2020.

Carbon dioxide emissions

417.87 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 162.26 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 158.668 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 96.942 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

241.004 million Btu/person (2019 est.)