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RENEWABLES
STILL LAG BEHIND
source: UNDP, World energy assessment, 2004,
http://www.undp.org/energy/
weaover2004.htm
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While general differences exist in electricity production sources, non-hydro renewable energy in electricity production is low in all regions:
Electricity production shares in various regions, by energy source (2001)
| | OECD | CIS & Eastern
Europe | Sub-Saharan Africa
& North Africa | Middle East | Asia Pacific | Latin America
& the Caribbean | | coal | 37.9 | 23.2 | 66.6 | 6.9 | 63.6 | 3.0 | | nuclear | 24.1 | 24.1 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.8 | | gas | 16.8 | 35.2 | 4.3 | 49.4 | 10.2 | 12.9 | | hydro | 13.0 | 19.4 | 13.0 | 4.8 | 16.1 | 67.7 | petroleum
products | 5.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 38.9 | 6.6 | 11.3 | combustible
renewables
& waste | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.9 | geothermal,
solar, etc. | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
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