The map shows the EU’s ongoing energy infrastructure investment known as Projects of Common Interest. It includes high voltage electricity lines, natural gas pipelines, oil pipelines, CO2 shipping routes and CO2 pipelines.
Other projects include Smart Grids and electricity, natural gas and oil infrastructure.
The map shows the “Celtic Interconnector” a proposed direct electrical link between France & Ireland which bypasses the UK post-Brexit. It received €530 million worth of funding from the European Commission in October 2019.
The map above was created Visualcapitalist.com to highlight the plight of the 1.2 billion people worldwide (16% of the world’s population) without access to electricity using data from the World Bank from 2017.
The animation above shows a rather surprising fact. Gravity on earth is not uniform everywhere. In some places it’s actually stronger than others.
The map above is a catogram that resizes the world’s countries by their total fossil fuel production. The data is from 2016 & 2017 and comes from a variety of sources.
The top 10 fossil fuel producing countries are: