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There's a small error in the USSR/Russia data aggregation.

Thank you for your work. It's awesome!
Cheers!

"Europe (other)" and "Other Asia & Pacific" have a value >100% for the variable "Share of electricity production from coal". I am not immediately sure what the source of the problem is. Further inspection needed.

(brand new to both github and data sharing, apologies for any stupidities)

I have made a small project based on this energy data, and am still in the middle of the project phase.

I re-downloaded the database, and noted the order of columns had changed in the database. (updated 220810). in my view, the new column ordering is an improvement over the previous.

However, the order of columns in the codebook is still as before the update.

It might be helpful to order the column descriptions in the codebook following the order in the database.

Hi!
First of all, thank you for providing these data, they are being very useful for my project!
I noticed that for some of the countries, like for instance for Switzerland in the case of share of electricity generation that comes from oil (column CM in the excel file "owid-energy-data"), this data is missing until the year of 2000.
I was wondering why, since all the data for the years before 2000 for this country are available.
Thank you in advance.
Lyubov

Hi...
i realized that the population and biofuel_consumption of North America in 2021 is not equal to population of Canada/Mexico/United Sates combined.
i really wish if you can add column to the codebook (method) explaining the method of calculation (is sum or weighted average by column xx) etc. This would help us to understand how to calculate aggregates for certain group of countries concerned.
please advise

What will be the best way to contact you directly?

I have sent email to [email protected] and I havent heard back for about 10 days.

Need to discuss Potential Partnership

Thank you so much for putting together this great database. We're trying to use your numbers for an open source blockchain carbon accounting system.

Could you explain how some of the numbers here are different than what we found from the EPA and EEA. For example, I'm looking at the carbon intensity of energy for India, Germany, and USA:

This shows both Germany and USA at 0.21 kg/KWH of electricity.

The EEA publishes a statistic for all the EU countries: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-intensity-5

For Germany it has 440.8 g/kWH in 2016.

The EPA publishes an EGRID database (https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-01/egrid2018_all_files.zip) and for 2018, the total of all USA utilities was 1,985,972,374 tons CO2e for 4,168,365,243 MWH of total electricity generated, or about 0.476 kG/KWH.

Thank you.

Hi,
The values in the oil_electricity columns are oddly low, compared to other *_electricity columns. Are they true values?
Here is the case of United States in 2021.
year 2021.00
biofuel_electricity 54.25
coal_electricity 897.89
fossil_electricity 2512.45
gas_electricity 1579.36
hydro_electricity 246.47
low_carbon_electricity 1637.50
nuclear_electricity 778.19
oil_electricity 35.20
other_renewable_electricity 70.22
solar_electricity 164.42
wind_electricity 378.20

The raw data does not include values for South America, Oceania, Asia, North America. But the dashboard shows regional aggregates for some variables.