Data for: LONG-TERM DIVERSIFICATION PATHS AND ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN EUROPE
Description
The data set provides the raw data we used in our research: energy use by primary energy source in United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and France, from 1800 to 2009, expressed in petajoules (the data do not cover the first decades of the period for some countries); the calculation process, based on the Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index; and the outputs we obtained: the Energy Mix Concentration Index in the mentioned countries for the period covered. Our starting point are the historical databases developed by a number of energy researchers, that is, United Kingdom (Fouquet, 2014), Italy (Malanima, 2006), Netherlands (Gales et al., 2007), Portugal (Henriques, 2011), Spain (Rubio, 2005), Sweden (Kander, 2002) and Germany and France (Kander et al., 2014, where all the data, but the United Kingdom’s, have been collected - an alternative set of data is included for England and Wales by Warde (2007)-). The basic data set on energy consumption is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energyhistory/energydata.html