electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-electricity-generation-from-solar-and-wind-compared-to-coal

Electricity Generation From Solar And Wind Compared To Coal | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 1,984 observations · 39 Europe countries · 1965–2025 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Europe](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,984 observations of Electricity Generation From Solar And Wind Compared To Coal data across 39 Europe countries, spanning 1965–2025.

About the source

• —Source: Our World in Data
• —Publisher: Our World in Data
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Electricity Generation From Solar And Wind Compared To Coal

Geographic coverage

39 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Schema

Data quality & caveats

• —Solar and wind column has 4.9% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-electricity-generation-from-solar-and-wind-compared-to-coal")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Solar and wind")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_electricity_generation_from_solar_and_wind_compared_to_coal_2025,
  title        = {Electricity Generation From Solar And Wind Compared To Coal | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation-from-solar-and-wind-compared-to-coal},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-electricity-generation-from-solar-and-wind-compared-to-coal}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-05 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation-from-solar-and-wind-compared-to-coal