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How much we use, and how generate?


(In this article, I am not going to state any opinions about nuclear power plant. My purpose is to clarify the fact which can be information for decision whether nuclear power plant is good or not by analyzing trustworthy statistics or graphs.)

Contents

  1. Analysis of Global electricity consumption from Global Energy Statistical Yearbook 2019
  2. How does they generate electricity in distinctive countries
  3. Do such countries have nuclear power plants?
  4. Analysis of Countries With the Most Nuclear Power Plants

1.Analysis of Global electricity consumption from Global Energy Statistical Yearbook 2019

 Today, electricity is necessary for our life. We are using light, fridge, smartphone, laptop and others by consuming electricity which was generated in power plant. Before discuss nuclear power plant, I thought I need to know how much we consume electricity as a basic information.


(This screenshot from Global Energy Statistical Yearbook 2019. )
 This map is showing which countries, how much they use electricity by shadowing. Unit is Mtoe: million tonnes of oil equivalent. From this map, China is the highest consuming country followed by north America, Asia, Russia, and Europe.
So, I would like to focus on the way to generate electricity of such countries. 



2.How does they generate electricity in distinctive countries 

(Japan atomic culture foundation/原子力エネルギー図面集)
This picture is showing ratio of some countries’ method to generate electricity. Korea, Japan, England, Brazil, and America’s main resource is oil. Gas is used in Russia, Italy, England, and Canada. China, India are using coal for major resources. France depends 38% on nuclear power to generate electricity. Brazil and Canada use water almost 30%. England, Italy, and Germany is higher use of renewable energy than other countries.
Although these countries are quite low percentage without France, almost all of these countries have nuclear power plants.

3. Analysis of Countries With the Most Nuclear Power Plants

According to statista, the countries which has nuclear power plants are below,

The statistic shows the number of operable nuclear reactors as of June 2019, by country. United States has the most nuclear power plants. (“As of June 18, 2019, there are 59 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 97 nuclear reactors in 29 U.S. states.”/Frequently asked question from U.S.Energy Information Administration)

France generates about 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security. However, government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035. They are going to shut the thermal power plants by 2022, in opposition, the amount of electricity from wind power would be triple, and solar power would be five times.

Japan, also actually generate electricity by only 8 nuclear power plants because of TEPCO’s nuclear disaster. Government declared that aim to less dependency of NPP. These two countries’ trend is to decrease the number of nuclear power plants.


And second statistic below shows the number of planned nuclear reactors worldwide as of May 2019, by country. From this graph, China, Russia, and Brazil is going to construct more nuclear power plants. According to British Petroleum, “nuclear generation in China increases strongly, rising by 1000 TWh over the Outlook, with the level of nuclear generation in China by 2040 similar to that in the entire OECD.” China is going to be the highest country with the most nuclear power plant. Russia and India are planning to supply a lot of electricity which they consume so  in their countries by constructing and using more nuclear power plants.
＜source＞
  1. Total energy consumption. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption-statistics.html
  2. 【1-1-8】 主要国の一次エネルギー構成. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ene100.jp/zumen/1-1-8
  3. Number of operable nuclear power plants by country 2019. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear-reactors-in-operation-by-country/
  4. U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=207&t=3
  5. Planned nuclear power plants worldwide 2019. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/268154/number-of-planned-nuclear-reactors-in-various-countries/
  6. Nuclear and hydro power generation: Energy economics: Home. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook/demand-by-fuel/nuclear-and-hydro-power-generation.html

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