Introduction

Global Energy efficiency usage already challenges our lives. As the human population and economy grows, so does our demand for energy.
Some energy from fossil fuels unfortunately are not replaceable energy, yet currently 80% global energy comes from burning fossil fuels. An estimation for fossil fuel reserves is only 50-120 years.

Goal

• To find global energy usage, energy trading flows and per capital use to better understand the progress for energy efficiency usage.

• To observe from the top 10 world economies,and discover which countries are energy suppliers / consumers.

Data Resource:

International-energy-statistics from kaggle.com

Top 10-economies : USA , China , Japan , Germany , UK , India , France , Brazil , Italy , Canada

Population from wikipedia.org

US Electrical Production from api.eia.gov

Types of Commodities

Types of Commodities

Exploring the Data

rpub link

Part I: Electrical Power Production

USA:“total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

China:“total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

Japan:“total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

Germany:“total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

UK: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

India: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

France: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

Brazil: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

Italy: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

Canada: “total”, “nuclear”, “thermal”, “solar”, “tide_wave_and_ocean”, and “hydro”.

Part I: Electrical Power Production

• China and The USA Combined produce more electricity than the next 8 countries combined by GDP.
• China, India, and Brazil have undergone explosive growth of electrical production 1990-2014.
• The UK is the only country to have shrunk in terms of production in the same period.

Energy Analysis Conclusions-1

We can look at power totals side by side:

Energy Analysis Conclusions-2

We can look at power totals side by side:

Energy Analysis Conclusions-3

Energy Analysis Conclusions-4

• Signs of the Great Recession can be seen in 7 of 10 Countries.
• Countries with no clear sign of Great Recession (GR) are: China, India, Brazil.
• Italy and UK have yet to recover electric production since GR.
• The UK’s Slump started before the GR.

Energy Analysis Conclusions-5

• Growth in China and India fueled by Fossil Fuels (FF).
• Brazil initially used Hydroelectricity, but has swapped Hydro for FF since 2011.
• Only 3 countries do not primarily use FF: France (Nuclear), Canada (Hydro), Brazil (Hydro)
• Only Italy and Germany have signifcant Solar power.
• China, India, and Brazil, all with significant (sub)tropical territory had not invested in Solar as of 2014.

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

The five productes: rpub link

Warning: NAs introduced by coercion to integer range

   Coal_Peat_Oil.Shale                      Oil                Nautal Gas
1:           hard_coal   conventional_crude_oil natural_gas_including_lng
2:          anthracite      natural_gas_liquids              gasworks_gas
3:         coking_coal additives_and_oxygenates         blast_furnace_gas
                                            Electricity & heat
1: electricity_net_installed_capacity_of_electric_power_plants
2:                                                        heat
3:                               direct_use of_geothermal_heat
   Biofuels & Waste
1:         fuelwood
2:         charcoal
3:          bagasse

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

Part II: Import & Export Net Trade

• US and Canada both exported a lot of coal_peat_oil.shale. For oil and natural gas, Canada and United States were the largest seller and buyer respectively in most time.

• China, Japan and India had dramatically enlarged the import of unreplacble energy source coal_peat_oil.shale and oil products. China also showed aggressively import more natural gas from 2008.

• France, Germany, Italy and UK had kept the stable low quantity the trade. UK already aggressively import more biofuel & waste.

• Brazil had very low active in energy trade, since it gets most of its electricity from hydro-electric plants.

Part III: Electricity Consumption by households

Part III: Electricity Consumption by households

Energy Trading Outlook

• Unrenewable energy trade still the major products. Renewable energy trade in past decade hasn’t involved in the trade. As domestic renewable energy can grow, unrenewable energy trade will be reduced.

• For China and India, we can see the per capital use of household electricity consumption is relatively very low comparing developed countries. They will keep the strong demand in import since they aggressively develop their rural countries.

• UE countries reduce the trade quantity because of unforeseen future in weak economy. But the data shows they have ambition in renewable energy.

Energy Trading Outlook

• Canada export will depend on United States demand. But United States import and export had large flotation in the past. In addition, per capital usage in Canada and United States already are very high comparing the others. Trade flow between two countries will be depend on policy and their strategy.

• Japan energy trade will retain small grow, and Brazil will be constant very low.