Europes Energy

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What is the Europe's Energy project?
Countries around the world are taking measures to mitigate climate change. Member States of the European Union have agreed on targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020. The 'Europe's Energy' project gives users a set of visual tools to put these targets into context and to understand and compare how progress is being made towards them in different countries.

How can I keep touch or get involved?
You can sign up to our email announcement list to receive occasional updates about what we're up to. If you have a comment or suggestion, you can email us at energy@okfn.org. Work in this area is ongoing and we are always interested in having extra pairs of eyes and extra pairs of hands to help out! If you'd like to get involved, please come and say hello on our open-energy discussion list, or ping @okfn or @jwyg on Twitter.

What are the data sources for this?
The Europe's Energy project is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, which provides official statistics on EU Member States. The breakdown of imports is from IEA. Colour coding for geothermal is based on LCA-data of Karlsdottir et al (2010). Colour coding for nuclear energy uses the average of the LCA-estimates of British Energy (2005), Fthenakis & Kim (2007), ISA (2006), Storm & Smith (2005), Weisser (2007). All other LCA-conversion factors are from EUmayors.

Who is behind this?
This website is a mini-project of the Open Knowledge Foundation, put together in just under two weeks by Gregor Aisch, Jonathan Gray, Dirk Heine, Friedrich Lindenberg, Nathaniel Scheer, and Guo Xu. It was supported by the European funded LOD2 project, which will bring together open datasets from local, regional and national public bodies across Europe for all to reuse. It is based on ideas that came out of the Eurostat Hackday event in London in December 2010.

A big thank you to all of the following people and projects for all of their help and support: John Allen (Eurostat, European Commission), Sören Auer (University of Leipzig), Michele Barbera (Linked Open Data Italia), Stefano Bertolo (INFSO, European Commission), Margit Beutler, Judit Bognar (University of Málaga), Liliana Bounegru (European Journalism Centre), Jacob Christiansen, Damla Demir (Simon Fraser University), Halid Demirtas (University of Ghent), Velichka Dimitrova (University of Cambridge), Francis Irving (ScraperWiki), Elin Ivarsson (Uppsala Universitet), Robert Klein (Paris School of Economics), Catherine Kunkel, Cathrine Lippert (Danish National IT & Telecom Agency), Pekka Loesoenen (Eurostat, European Commission), Philippine de Maere (Universität Hamburg), Dana Manescu (Press Office, European Council), Tomáš Marek, the Noun Project, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (Regards Citoyens), Uli Schöber, Fabrizio Scrollini (LSE), Alek Tarkowski (Centrum Cyfroweli), Eugene Tjoa, Sander van der Waal (OSS Watch), Boyan Yurukov, and Ton Zijlstra.