Energy production

Energy production refers to how much primary energy a country extracts from nature. This is the total of all of the harvested primary fuels and primary energy flows. Note production ignores both imports and exports, and sums up what's extracted from nature. The primary energy available for use by a country after imports and exports is the total primary energy supply, often referred to as TPES and can be thought of as an energy mix. Please see Figure 1 for a flowchart that explains how production becomes TPES and eventually the total final consumption (referred to as TFC).

Energy production would include:

• Any coal, oil or natural gas that is extracted from the ground in that country (but not the fossil fuels that are imported.
• Any hydropower, wind, geothermal, tidal or solar power extracted from nature.
• Electricity from nuclear power plants, rather than the energy held in uranium that's been mined because there's so much more energy in the uranium than any of the other sources. The accounting for nuclear power is done differently, so only the electricity is considered.

Figure 1. This diagram shows how production becomes Total Primary Energy Supply becomes Total Final Consumption. Various primary energy sources combine are changed with energy conversion technologies like power plants and refineries to energy currencies.

In the data visualization below, click on different countries to see what the energy production looks like. The pie chart gives what fraction of the countries primary energy harvested from the environment is a particular source. Please note that for some countries production is bigger than TPES and for some countries production is smaller than TPES depending on how much energy is imported or exported.

For Further Reading

• Primary energy and TPES
• TFC
• Fuel vs flow
• Energy access
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