Top Solar Energy Producing Countries, Per Person, 1990 - 2022
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2022
- Top Solar Energy Producing Countries, Per Person, 1990 - 2022
In this video I look at countries trying to move off fossil fuels by producing more solar energy. I used per capita (per person) because it shows us who is putting more of their resources into the transition to solar energy.
Solar energy has been used by humans since the beginning of time. The first use of solar energy was for cooking and heating. Here are some important dates in the history of solar energy production:
1883 - First solar cells made from selenium at 1% efficiency
1954 - First solar cells made from silicon at 6% efficiency, at $300/watt
1960 - Hoffman Electronics achieve 14% efficiency by 1960
1964 - Nimbus launched with solar panels able to power entire spacecraft.
1973 - University of Delaware builds first building powered by solar roof tiles similar to Tesla solar tech
1979 - President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House at $70/watt
1985 - University of South Wales achieves 20% generation efficiency
1999 - National Renewable Energy Laboratory achieves 33.3% efficiency
2016 - University of South Wales achieves 34.5% generation efficiency
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Aaaah a "per person" graph where we won't have to see China coming from the bottom and take the top place. Take that China!!!
China is the world largest polluter, they mostly relly on coal
Hey, you're right! I didn't notice that until you mentioned it.
I was curious why China is not on top.
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@@user-cj9fs8oh6vit’s quite common actually, even US with the 300 millions population also not on the board too
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Japan is easily understandable. Ironically, they leave this ranking more or less at the time of the Fukushima disaster, to then develop solar energy at an impressive and sustained rate.
For their top 1 between 1999 and 2003 (even 2004, because there is no one in Luxembourg, it's cheating). I personally interpret it as their ecological conscience certainly "already there" culturally. And perhaps because their scientists and industries are more focused on technical and optimization challenges where others would be more inclined to abandon or reduce research. I am thinking for example of their recent achievement on the difficult rotating detonation engine. But maybe I'm wrong.
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These kinds of chart videos take a lot of research and energy to complete, that being the reason for the infrequent uploads.
Australia with the massive comeback. lol
Great topic 😍
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First and nice video
Good video
Question: where did you obtain the data??
Is this data based on utility solar only, or does it include all solar deployed (residential and commercial)? Thanks for the great video!
Very interesting
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Love that this is available in 4K
Is your data for solar electric(PV) production only or does it also include concentrated solar power systems, which I believe are the mirror systems?
I like how spain survived in the solar war! Appreciate this country the most!
There is no wonder that Australia is No.1 of Solar energy. Because Australia has a lot of area to install solar panels. Sadly,Japan has no wide area to install solar panels. Japan try to utilize even small areas between train rails to install solar panels,though.
Also, Australia is mostly a subtropical, very sunny country ... therefore the same solar panel will generate much more electricity per year in Australia than it would e.g. in Germany or Luxemburg.
The best graph! Smart! Thank you!!! Australia and Israel have a lot of sun!
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From the USA perspective, I'd be curious to see how politics played a role in this. The USA was on the list until 2009 and then came back on the list in 2015 and stayed there until the end. So there was only a 6yr period where we weren't in the top and all 6yrs were under Obama's 8yr presidency. If I had to guess before watching the video, I would have assumed that we would have fallen off under Trump's presidency. Just found that curious.
I'd guess that by 2016, photovoltaic solar panels had become so cheap that it made a lot of sense to invest in solar power from a purely economical perspective, with our without government support, so that it didn't depend so much anymore on what the federal administration did and whether someone like Trump is leading it or not.
The USA (well, at least most of it, excluding Alaska) have much more potential for solar power generation than e.g. Germany (much more unused space, and much more solar radiation, especially in the south and the southwest). And the US population and companies have the necessary money for these investments. So it makes sense that the US would start investing more and catch up at some time.
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¡Viva España!
the 1970s oil crises forced the USA to become oil independent....so we still haven't taken solar energy seriously.
Yes, there's really no good reason why the USA are behind countries like Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands... Most of the US are further south (nearer to the equator) than these countries, get much more sunshine / solar radiation, and have much more space per person (i.e. lower population density). Especially if you think of states like Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada.
For the first part of the vidoe, US, Australia, and Japan were in the lead, but around 2002, LLLLLLLLLLLLLUXEMBOURG!! (I type it like that, because of the way they just sprang ahead). And form then on, many new countries hopped on and off the list. Very interesting to see how the rankings changed after that.
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What are the units? per hour/per week/per fortnight/per month/per quarter/per year, kWhr?
It reminds me of the spread of GSM. A few nations lead the way but eventually the rest follow and the market is saturated. Where is the UK?
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Germany increased its per capita capacity 200 times in the 2000s, but it has only doubled in the last decade and they love to be proud of being a "green country". Japan and Australia, on the other hand, has multiplied their per capita capacity by ten in the last 10 years. I am noticing in the current energy crisis that much of what Europe does is greenwashing, but that in practice little is being done to decarbonise energy generation. There is an aesthetic tendency to greenwash everything, like building wooden buildings - rationally speaking, wouldn't it be better to focus on decarbonizing power generation first as this has easy and obvious solutions?
Luxembourg put ine panel up and head to the top of the leaderboard!
Luxembourg " excuse me....I said excuse me " 😤
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The US should be higher. Southern Nevada has solar plants everywhere.
Chaina is largest solar energy producing country.
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Is China not displayed here because of their large population.
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Japan is much obvious, a thriving nation with an expanded industry system
Como dijo Elon Musck, España tenía que ser el mayor productor de energía solar y poder exportar a toda Europa, pero la gente no quiere paneles solares cerca de su casa y como vayan a poner a alguno cerca la montan gorda.
Oi oi oi!!!
Where’s the UK?
Que España tenga menos energía solar que Holanda y Alemania es vergonzoso. El país del sol, teníamos que ser los primeros o segundos.
They needed the heat 🔥 more.
Hahaha Hahaha.
Once again, Australia is king.
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Well, india isn't mentioned ....
wonder why China didn't show up here
I wonder 🤔 why our India is not there in the top 10?
I'm guessing population has something to do with it, you'd need 50x as much solar capacity as Australia to be at a similar per-person level.
Usually doing per-capita makes things more comparable across vast population sizes. I'm sure if they just did "total solar" China and India would be in the top 2 spots, but they also have the most people by a wide margin. Per capita isn't always a perfect measure either. Which is why Luxembourg briefly skyrocketed to the top. They're are a super small country and probably built 1 large solar field and it jumped them to #1 for a bit.
Per person????
What is Zech Republic? China?
How in this chart US is worst performer.
Damn germany was so long the First But then some stupid Countries arrived 😢
US lost the rank hahahaha
А где ссср?
Dead
@@lukesalazar9283 но при ссср мы достигли намного больше чем сша
@@user-lz6fk2fx6p можно примеры? Как-то никогда не слышал про массовое применение солнечной энергетики в СССР.
Разве что СЭС-5, но та к 1990 произвела всего 2 млн кВт*ч за пять лет. Т.е. в среднем 400 000 кВт*ч в год. Поделить на 290 млн человек населения -- 0.00137 кВт*ч на человека за год. В самом начале видео как раз январь 1990 и у последнего в топе Китая чуть больше -- 0.002.
В ролике сравнивается выработка _электричества_ (т.е. всякие солнечные коллекторы используемые просто для нагрева воды не в счет) в пересчете на человека. За 2020 год в России солнечная энергетика произвела всего 15 кВт*ч на человека.
India is not in this place 😀.
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Complete data is wrong
Сравнение не особо релевантное. Люксембург очень маленькая страна.
China??!
This is per capita, not TOTAL
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Где Россия?
Probably frozen
Russia didn't need solar, with all the fossil fuel abundantly available.
Also, a solar panel in St Petersburg wouldn't get much sunlight per year.
It is Fake .
Where is india and china?
This video is so incorrect....India was literally 4th in 2021 might have crossed Japan in 2022 with its Dholera plant...your list doesn't even have India 😂
"Per capita"
Interesting to see Palestine at the #2 spot, I thought China would be #1.
China has a lot of solar, but they also have 1.4 billion people.
China leads the world in solar power but this chart is by per person so
Idk what palestine is but Israel is really good at solar power
I didn't even see Palestine on the list?
@@mr.munger good
As Chinese,we still have long way to go to protect environment.We can do better in next decade.
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