South Korea ranked at the bottom of a list on renewable energy use among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
 
According to International Energy Agency data released Monday, renewable energy accounted for only one-point-one percent of South Korea’s total energy supply last year. That’s the lowest among the OECD’s 34 member states.
 
Renewable energy refers to energy that comes from sunlight, wind, water and tides. Use has remained at one-point-one percent since 1990.
 
Iceland was the number one user of renewable energy. Data showed renewable energy makes up a little over 89 percent of the country's energy use. Norway followed with 43-and-a-half percent and New Zealand with roughly 39 percent.
 
Experts said South Korea’s renewable energy use remains low because it lacks places to build solar or wind power facilities and due to the country's expansion of atomic energy and coal-fired power plants.