Energy is one of the commodities we least think about when it comes to trade and production in our everyday lives. It's not flashy like an imported German car, or as delectable as an imported French cheese, but it still plays an important role in international markets. This is a little project that seeks to visualize its trade and production in Europe and Eurasia over the past few years.
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To our right, On the bottom of the screen, we're seeing all of the yearly trade from one country to another from 2018 to 2023. Circles represent start points! I mean, look at all of that trade! It's hard to get a grasp on the finer details. Let's focus on a specific place - say, Germany - and its energy production.
We can see here that Germany's relied heavily on fossil fuels since 2000, with coal as their main source. Nuclear's been on the decline, and renewables were greatly exceeded by fossil fuels. But, something happened in 2016, and renewables really shot up.
(You can also hover on the categories to highlight, and the points to see values)
In 2016, Russia annexed the Crimean region in Ukraine. This caused a lot of European nations to sanction Russia, who supplies a good amount of the fossil fuels in Europe. But it doesn't seem like it affected domestic production too much.
To see how other European countries were affected, click on them on the right. tap them on the bottom. The lines that come out are countries that the selected country trades energy to.
(no exports in data)
Built by Chris Chung and Max Ma.
Code can be found at the GitHub Repo.
Huge credit to Jim Vallandingham for writing a guide on Scrollers.
Stylistic inspiration from Cuthbert Chow.
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