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Digest of Energy Statistics - Published August 2008
Compiled and edited by Nigel Hawkins and Dan Lewis

ISBN 9780903499316

£15 including P&P


Background - August 2008:

Most energy statistcs are meaningless - without a context. The Digest of Energy Statistics 2008 is the first annual report which includes - amongst its 27 tables - selected World and EU rankings on electricity consumption, energy reserves, electricity and gas prices, energy efficiency, carbon efficiency and the comparative cost of electricity generating technologies.

Tables included in the 2008 Digest of Energy Statistics;

Table 1: World Coal Reserves
Table 2: World Natural Gas Reserves
Table 3: Producers of Hydro Electricity
Table 4: World Nuclear Output
Table 5: World Nuclear Investment
Table 6: Leading Producers, Exporters and Importers of Electricity
Table 7: Electricity Production from Fossil Fuels
Table 8: Energy Efficiency (Output v Input at Nominal GDP)
Table 9: Energy Efficiency (Output vy Input at PPP)
Table 10: Energy Inefficiency (Output v Input at Nominal GDP)
Table 11: Energy Inefficiency (Output v Input at PPP)
Table 12: Highest Energy Consumers
Table 13: Lowest Energy Consumers
Table 14: Carbon Efficiency ($ of Output v Co2 Input)
Table 15: Carbon Inefficiency ($ of Output v Co2 Input)
Table 16: The Highest Users of Electricity (per capita)
Table 17: The Lowest Users of Electricity (per capita)
Table 18: EU Final Energy Consumption (1,000 toe)
Table 19: EU Total Gross Electricity Consumpution (GWh)
Table 20: EU Renewable Energy (as a %age of gross electricity consumption)
Table 21: EU Carbon Emissions
Table 22: EU Electricity Prices for Major Inudstrial Users
Table 23: EU Gas Prices for Major Industrial Users
Table 24: EU Domestic Electricity Prices
Table 25: EU Domestic Gas Prices
Table 26: Comparative Generation Costs - Wind and Conventional
Table 27: Comparative Generation Costs - Renewables

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