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Energy transitions in Europe
Book Title
Economic history of the European energy industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries
Year (definitive publication)
2024
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
This chapter explains the diversity in energy transitions taking place in Europe between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries. This thus demonstrates how Europe experienced two different transitions from the epoch-long solar energy regime to the coal-based regime. This also points out how the transition towards oil and natural gas differed completely from the previous transition to coal because it was swifter, overwhelming and led by a different group of nations. After the Second World War, the European split between a capitalist West and a communist East also imparted a division between oil and coal economies. What we may expect from the current transition to renewable energy accounts for the chapter’s closing theme.
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- Earth and related Environmental Sciences - Natural Sciences
- History and Archeology - Humanities
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