Electricity production measured in kilowatt-hours at power plant terminals. The data covers generation from hydropower, coal, oil, gas, nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and combustible renewables and waste. It is compiled by the World Bank from the World Development Indicators database archives.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in coal, oil, and gas generation over time to model fossil fuel dependency.
- Compare the growth of solar and wind production against traditional nuclear and hydropower sources.
- Assess the contribution of geothermal, tide, and wave energy to a country's total electricity output.
- Model the share of electricity from combustible renewables and waste for sustainability metrics.
- Forecast future electricity production by training on historical kWh values for each generation type.
Strengths
- Covers a comprehensive set of generation sources including ten distinct types like solar, wind, and nuclear.
- Measures production at the precise point of generation (alternator terminals) for consistency.
Limitations
- Specific temporal coverage, row count, and geographic scope are unknown from the input.
- The dataset may lack granularity below the national annual level, limiting intra-year or sub-national analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) Database Archives
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from national reports on electricity production measured at power plant terminals.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global, country-level (inferred from WDI standard).