An increasing number of relevant topics are linked to energy consumption -- we can discuss not only climate change and sustainable energy consumption, but also study various international conflicts that revolve around a key point such as energy consumption. Having precise and processed information on this topic becomes an extremely useful tool.
At Infodash we systematized the information provided by Our World in Data and created various dashboards to explore the evolution of energy consumption by country and energy type for each source: carbon emissions, renewables, and fossil fuels.
Let us look at an example. Take Germany, a country that was at the center of the stage in 2022 due to the role a gas pipeline would play in its relationship with Russia. What is Germany's energy structure? What types of energy does it consume? Is it true that nuclear energy consumption declined after Germany closed several of its plants?
For a first approach to these questions, from page 1 we can select "Germany" in Country and observe that total gas consumption maintains a positive trend in per capita terms although it has decreased as a proportion of GDP (for this we filter by "Gas consumption" in energy type). To answer the last question we raised, we only need to go to the last dashboard to notice that, although nuclear-based energy consumption has indeed decreased in recent years and Germany is one of the countries with the greatest dependence on nuclear energy, it never reached more than 15% of German consumption. Therefore, it would be imprudent to claim that Germany's dependence on Russian gas in energy terms is a direct and exclusive consequence of the reduction in nuclear energy production; perhaps in a counterfactual world where nuclear plants were not closed, the dependence would be lower, but not enough to eradicate the problem.
