The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2021) is reported.


Value:		≈ 1.7 × 10¹⁹ J / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... ≈ 5.5 × 10¹¹ W ≈ 0.55 TW
HuID:		30581
Relevant Year(s):		2021
Summary:		This value is calculated as an 'input-equivalent' amount of energy, meaning the amount of energy it would have taken to produce a given amount of power if the input was a fossil fuel. BP defines this as: "Primary energy consumption numbers for non-fossil based electricity (nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass in power and other renewables sources) are calculated on an ‘input-equivalent’ basis – i.e. based on the equivalent amount of fossil fuel input required to generate that amount of electricity in a standard thermal power plant." In 2017, the conversion factor was about 40%.
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 consumption for power derived from wind turbines (bp_wind_consumption.csv) global resolution
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Original Data License:		Some Rights Reserved
Added By:		gchure