Renewable Electricity Autarky Potential Across European Administrative Units

Results from a 2019 study by Tim Tröndle of ETH Zurich investigating the possibility for renewable electricity self-sufficiency in Europe. The data includes metrics for administrative units at continental, national, regional, and municipal levels. It contains fields such as population, current electricity demand, and potential for renewable capacity and annual yield.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional renewable energy self-sufficiency based on installable capacity and annual yield potential.
• Analyzing the relationship between population density and electricity demand across administrative scales.
• Assessing coastal areas' renewable energy potential based on shared coast with exclusive economic zone data.
• Comparing current electricity demand against renewable generation potential at municipal, regional, and national levels.

Strengths

• Covers administrative units at four distinct geographic scales: continental, national, regional, and municipal.
• Includes specific potential metrics such as area in km², installable capacity in MW, and annual electricity yield in TWh.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Tim Tröndle, ETH Zurich

Collection Method

Results from the study 'Tröndle et al (2019) -- Home-made or imported: on the possibility for renewable electricity autarky on all scales in Europe'.

Geography

Europe