The table illustrates how Malaysia, Singapur, Thailand, South Korea and Japan generated electricity using 4 different fuels: Nuclear, Coal & lignite, Petroleum products, Hydro & wind, and others in 2005. Units are measured in percentage.
Overall, Coal & lignite was the leader in Malaysia, having the highest usage percentage among all energy resources. It was followed by Hydro & wind in South Korea and Coal & lignite again in Singapore. Besides being the only one with no Nuclear Energy usage, Thailand also had the lowest percentage of Coal & lignite.
Japan was the leader in Nuclear energy utilisation, accounting for 49%, followed by South Korea with 33%. Malaysia and Singapore had similar percentages, at 19% and 13% respectively. However, coal & lignite was Malaysia’s predominant fuel source, contributing 61% of the total electricity generated, while Singapore was just behind it at 42%. Petroleum products, overall, were the least utilized fuel type with 2% and 3% consecutively, except for Thailand, which had an obvious domination in this sector.
