Methodology
The data used on this website comes from a number of sources, listed further down. The process of validating and merging data involves several steps. Validation is mainly done by comparing calculated and listed totals, for each region and worldwide. Data points that do not meet a certain acceptable level of error are discarded. Subsequently an ideal data source is chosen for each region and year. In some cases there is only one source available for the specific region and year. If multiple sources are available, the source which includes the most specific data is chosen. For example, some data sources group certain energy types together, such as Geothermal and Biofuels. In these cases the more specific data point is preferred. To find out which source was used for each data point you can download the combined data further down on this page.
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You can download the data used in the charts and tables on this site:
Data Sources
The main electricity data used on this website comes from IEA, Ember, EIA, the World Bank and BP. The trade data used to calculate net imports comes from Enerdata, IEA and Ember. Data for each region and year is taken from one single source. Here is an overview of the relative use of each data source:
| Source | Data points used | Years |
|---|---|---|
| IEA | 3896 | 1990 - 2019 |
| EIA | 1757 | 1980 - 2018 |
| Ember | 1232 | 2000 - 2020 |
| WorldBank | 544 | 1971 - 1989 |
| BP | 366 | 1985 - 2019 |
Links to the data sources:
- The International Energy Agency (IEA) Electricity generation by source and ElecImportsExports data
- The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Electricity data
- The Ember Data Explorer.
- The World Bank Data (Energy & Mining)
- Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from natural gas sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from oil sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)
- Electricity production from nuclear sources (% of total)
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (kWh)
- The BP Statistical Review of World Energy (1965-2019)
- Nuclear Generation - TWh
- Hydro Generation - TWh
- Renewables - TWh
- Solar Generation - TWh
- Wind Generation - TWh
- Geo Biomass Other - TWh
- Electricity Generation
- Elec Gen from Oil
- Elec Gen from Gas
- Elec Gen from Coal
- Elec Gen from Other
- The Enerdata Electricity balance of trade data
The energy storage data comes from the Global Energy Storage Database Projects from Sandia National Laboratories.
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