Renewable and nuclear energy: direct vs. substituted energy, World
Direct primary energy measures the amount of electricity generated from power plants. Substituted primary energy estimates the amount of energy required bypower plants if these sources had the same inefficiencies as fossil fuels. Measured in terawatt-hours.
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- Absolute annual change in primary energy consumption
- Access to clean fuels for cooking vs. per capita energy use
- Access to electricity vs. GDP per capita
- Annual change in coal energy consumption
- Annual change in fossil fuel consumption
- Annual change in gas consumption
- Annual change in hydropower generation
- Annual change in low-carbon energy generation
- Annual change in nuclear energy generation
- Annual change in oil consumption
- Annual change in primary energy consumption
- Annual change in renewable energy generation
- Annual change in solar and wind energy generation
- Annual change in solar energy generation
- Annual change in wind energy generation
- Annual patents filed for carbon capture and storage technologies
- Annual patents filed for electric vehicle technologies
- Annual patents filed for energy storage technologies
- Annual patents filed for renewable energy technologies
- Annual patents filed in sustainable energy
- Annual percentage change in coal energy consumption
- Annual percentage change in fossil fuel consumption
- Annual percentage change in gas consumption
- Annual percentage change in hydropower generation
- Annual percentage change in low-carbon energy generation
- Annual percentage change in nuclear energy generation
- Annual percentage change in oil consumption
- Annual percentage change in renewable energy generation
- Annual percentage change in solar and wind energy generation
- Annual percentage change in solar energy generation
- Annual percentage change in wind energy generation
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. fossil fuel consumption per capita
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. share of electricity generation from renewables
- Carbon intensity of electricity generation
- Changes in energy use vs. changes in GDP
- Changes in energy use vs. changes in GDP per capita
- Coal by end user in the United Kingdom
- Coal energy consumption per capita vs. GDP per capita
- Coal output from opencast and deepmines in the United Kingdom
- Coal output per worker in the United Kingdom
- Coal prices
- Coal productionLong-run series
- Coal productionSince 1981
- Coal production and imports in the United KingdomTonnes
- Coal production per capita
- Coal production per capita over the long-term
- Cobalt production
- Consumption-based energy intensity per dollar
- Consumption-based energy use per person
- Countries with a sustainable consumption and production national action plan
- Crude oil prices
- Crude oil prices
- Crude oil spot prices
- Death rate from indoor air pollution vs. per capita energy use
- Death rates per unit of electricity production
- Direct primary energy consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables
- Electric car stocks
- Electricity as a share of primary energy
- Electricity demand
- Electricity generation
- Electricity generation from coal
- Electricity generation from fossil fuels
- Electricity generation from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Electricity generation from gas
- Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
- Electricity generation from oil
- Electricity generation from renewables
- Electricity generation from solar and wind compared to coal
- Electricity production by sourceLine chart
- Electricity production by sourceAbsolute area chart
- Electricity production by sourceRelative area chart
- Electricity production from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Electricity production in the United Kingdom
- Employment in the coal industry in the United Kingdom
- Energy consumption by source
- Energy embedded in traded goods as a share of domestic energy
- Energy imports and exports
- Energy intensityWorld Bank
- Energy intensity
- Energy intensity by sector
- Energy intensity vs. GDP per capita
- Energy use per capita vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Energy use per person
- Energy use per person vs. GDP per capita
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- Fossil fuel consumptionBy country
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita by sourceStacked area chart
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita by sourceLine chart
- Fossil fuel price index
- Fossil fuel production over the long-term
- Fossil fuel production per capita
- GDP per capita vs. energy use
- Gas consumption
- Gas consumption by region
- Gas production
- Gas production per capita
- Gas reserves
- Global aviation demand, energy efficiency and CO₂ emissions
- Global direct primary energy consumption
- Global electricity use for air conditioning
- Global fossil fuel consumption
- Global hydropower consumption
- Global installed renewable energy capacity by technology
- Global primary energy consumption by sourceLine chart
- Global primary energy consumption by sourceStacked area chart
- Graphite production
- How have things changed?
- Hubbert's peak prediction vs. actual oil production in the United States
- Hydropower generation
- Hydropower generation by region
- Hypothetical number of deaths from energy production
- Installed geothermal energy capacity
- Installed solar energy capacity
- Installed wind energy capacity
- Investment in renewable energy, by technology
- Kaya identity: drivers of CO₂ emissions
- Levelized cost of energy for renewables by country
- Lithium production
- Long-term energy transitions
- Low-carbon electricity generation per capita
- Low-carbon energy consumption
- Mining requirements of electricity sources, including gas
- Modern renewable energy generation by source
- Natural gas prices
- Natural gas production by region
- Net electricity imports
- Net electricity imports as a share of electricity demand
- Net energy embedded in traded goods
- Nuclear power generation
- Number of fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars sold
- Number of new cars sold, by type
- Number of new electric cars sold
- Number of people with and without electricity access
- Number of people without access to electricityBy world region
- Number of people without access to electricityBy country
- Oil consumption
- Oil consumption by region
- Oil production
- Oil production by region
- Oil production per capita
- Oil rents as a share of GDP
- Oil reserves
- People without clean fuels for cooking, by world region
- Per capita CO₂ emissions by source
- Per capita CO₂ emissions vs. per capita energy consumption
- Per capita consumption of low-carbon energy
- Per capita consumption of low-carbon energy vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita electricity demand
- Per capita electricity generation
- Per capita electricity generation by source
- Per capita electricity generation from fossil fuels
- Per capita electricity generation from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Per capita electricity generation from gas
- Per capita electricity generation from hydropower
- Per capita electricity generation from nuclear
- Per capita electricity generation from oil
- Per capita electricity generation from renewables
- Per capita electricity generation from solar
- Per capita electricity generation from solar and wind
- Per capita electricity generation from wind
- Per capita electricity generation vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita energy consumption from coal
- Per capita energy consumption from hydropower
- Per capita energy consumption from nuclear
- Per capita energy consumption from renewables
- Per capita energy consumption from solar
- Per capita energy consumption from solar and wind
- Per capita energy consumption from wind
- Per capita energy from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Per capita fossil energy consumption vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita gas consumption
- Per capita generation of coal electricity
- Per capita oil consumption
- Per capita primary energy consumption by source
- Power outages in firms in a typical month
- Prices of key materials for the energy transition
- Primary direct energy consumption by source
- Primary energy consumption
- Primary energy consumption by sourceOver time
- Primary energy consumption by sourceBy country
- Primary energy consumption by world region
- Primary energy consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Primary energy consumption from hydropower
- Primary energy consumption from nuclear
- Primary energy consumption from renewables
- Primary energy consumption from solar
- Primary energy consumption from solar and wind
- Primary energy consumption from wind
- Primary energy mix in the United Kingdom
- Production vs. consumption-based carbon intensity of energy
- Production- vs. consumption-based energy use per person
- Production-based vs. consumption-based energy use
- Renewable electricity generationStacked area chart
- Renewable energy consumption
- Renewable energy generationLine chart
- Renewable energy investment
- Share of cars currently in use that are electric
- Share of direct primary energy consumption by source
- Share of electricity generated by low-carbon sources
- Share of electricity generation from fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear
- Share of electricity production by sourceIndividual sources
- Share of electricity production by sourceFaceted
- Share of electricity production by sourceBroad types
- Share of electricity production from coal
- Share of electricity production from fossil fuels
- Share of electricity production from gas
- Share of electricity production from hydropower
- Share of electricity production from nuclear
- Share of electricity production from oil
- Share of electricity production from renewable sources
- Share of electricity production from renewables
- Share of electricity production from solar
- Share of electricity production from solar and wind
- Share of electricity production from wind
- Share of energy consumption by source
- Share of final energy use that comes from renewable sources
- Share of global primary energy consumption by source
- Share of new cars sold that are battery-electric and plug-in hybrid
- Share of new cars sold that are electric
- Share of new electric cars that are fully battery-electric
- Share of primary energy consumption from coal
- Share of primary energy consumption from fossil fuels
- Share of primary energy consumption from gas
- Share of primary energy consumption from hydroelectric power
- Share of primary energy consumption from low-carbon sources
- Share of primary energy consumption from nuclear
- Share of primary energy consumption from oil
- Share of primary energy consumption from renewable sources
- Share of primary energy consumption from solar
- Share of primary energy consumption from solar and wind
- Share of primary energy consumption from wind
- Share of primary energy consumption that comes from nuclear and renewables
- Share of primary energy that is low-carbon vs. GDP per capita
- Share of rural vs. urban population with electricity access
- Share of schools with access to electricity
- Share of the population with access to basic services
- Share of the population with access to electricity
- Share of the workforce employed in the coal industry, United Kingdom
- Share of total energy used in agriculture and forestry
- Share with access to electricity vs. per capita energy consumption
- Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices
- Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices vs. cumulative capacity
- Solar (photovoltaic) panels cumulative capacity
- Solar and wind power generation
- Solar energy generation by region
- Solar energy generation vs. capacity
- Solar power generation
- The cost of 66 different technologies over time
- The long-term energy transition in Europe
- Thermal efficiency factor applied to non-fossil energy sources to convert them to primary energy equivalents
- Uranium production
- When will countries phase out coal power?
- Wind energy generation by region
- Wind energy generation vs. installed capacity
- Wind power generation
- World crude oil price vs. oil consumption
- Year-to-year change in primary energy consumption by source
- Year-to-year change in primary energy consumption from fossil fuels vs. low-carbon energy
- Year-to-year percentage change in primary energy consumption
- Years of fossil fuel reserves left