Conversion factors

Conversion efficiency of primary energy carriers to electricity

Estimates of the efficiency of electricity generation from coal are taken from (Etemad et al., 1991). From 1890 until 1939 the following countries belong to the high efficiency producers: Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. The group of average efficiency producers consists of the following countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay, USSR and Yugoslavia. The group of low efficiency countries includes all of the Third World, except the countries listed in the average efficiency producers. 

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