The Human Impacts Database
A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.Global annual energy consumption from coal
EnergyFossil FuelsThis quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2021) is reported.
| Value: |
≈ 1.6 × 1020 J / yr
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This is equivalent to... ≈ 5.0 × 1012 W |
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| HuID: | 10400 | |
| Relevant Year(s): | 2021 | |
| Summary: | Value includes exclusively solid commercial fuels such as bituminous coal and anthracite, lignite and sub-bituminous coal, and other solid fuels. This includes coal used directly in power production as well as coal used in coal-to-liquids and coal-to-gas transformations. | |
| Method: | BP collects data from individual countries and does not provide an assessment of uncertainty. | |
| Source: | British Petroleum bp Statistical Review of World Energy dataset. (2022) | |
| Dataset: |
Global energy usage by type (bp_consumption_by_type.csv)
global resolution
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| Original Data License: | Some Rights Reserved | |
| Added By: | gchure |
