From organic to fossil and in-between: new estimates of energy consumption in the Swedish manufacturing industry during 1800–1913

Lindmark, Magnus; Spjut, Fredrik Olsson

doi:10.1080/03585522.2017.1401554

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“…As such, the SJ Litt. B. spent 100-120 kg of coal for heating one cubic meter of water to a pressure of 12 bar and a temperature of 187 C. industry, the development of steamship tonnage, the recorded railway fuel consumption and the coal consumption in gasworks (Lindmark & Olsson-Spjut, 2018).…”

Section: Figure 1 Swedish Coal Imports By Sector Of Destination 1800mentioning

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“…Other sectors, including domestic heating and heating of other premises, constituted a smaller, while not insignificant share of the coal consumption in Sweden. Lindmark and Olsson-Spjut (2018) therefore suggested that the increasing demand for coal during the second half of the 19 th century was derived from the mechanization of the leading economic sectors during the industrialization. Still, the Swedish energy transition was characterized by a dynamic interaction between the organic energy system and the mineral system, which created synergies between both systems.…”

Section: Figure 1 Swedish Coal Imports By Sector Of Destination 1800mentioning

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“…The forest industry was a key sector in the Swedish industrialization process and the saw mill industry timber consumption rose from one million cubic meters in 1840 to 11 million cubic meters in the 1890s (Lundgren, 1984: 223-25). During the same period the total fire wood and charcoal consumption in other manufacturing sectors probably increased from approximately 4.7 million cubic meters to 6.5 million cubic meters of wood (Lindmark & Olsson-Spjut, 2018). The output growth, measured as the industrial value added volume, increased sevenfold from 30 million to over 225 million 1913 SEK over the same period (Krantz & Schön, 2007).…”

Section: Firewood In the Domestic Sectormentioning

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“…The prices published as Swedish prices are, as shown by Fredrik Olsson indeed series from the Danish historical national accounts, which in turn were transformations of British export prices (Olsson 2007: 50-51). The prices from 1866 have been collected from the State Railways (Lindmark & Olsson-Spjut, 2018). Charcoal prices were approximately 5 to 15% lower per Joule than coal prices until 1880, when charcoal became approximately 20% more expensive than coal.…”

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The transformation of the organic energy system: the Swedish perspective

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KEYWORDS: organic energy system, energy history, Sweden, firewood.JEL CODES: N00, N53, N72, N73.T his article discusses the historical conversion of the Swedish organic energy system into a mineral one. The main argument is that there was a dynamic interaction between the two systems during the Swedish industrialization process. For one, growth of the mineral energy system contributed to open previously inaccessible organic resources in the forests of northern Sweden. Secondly, the development of the pulp and paper industry contributed to the switch from charcoal to coke in the iron manufacturing industry. Thirdly, the development of hydropower, itself an organic source of energy, further contributed to the emergence of a mixed energy system. One can therefore perceive the Swedish transition from an organic to a mineral energy system as a shift from a traditional organic energy system to an industrialized one, that is, an organic energy system dependent on the technologies and organizational structures of the mineral energy system in order to function.

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Section: Figure 1 Swedish Coal Imports By Sector Of Destination 1800mentioning

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Section: Figure 1 Swedish Coal Imports By Sector Of Destination 1800mentioning

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Adaptability, diversification, and energy shocks: A firm level productivity analysis

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Et energiregnskap for Fastlands-Norge 1835–2012

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2018

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A characteristic feature of the pre-industrial societies was that they relied on limited energy resources. It was only by using fossil fuels and new technologies that these societies could move the boundaries that the organic economy had set for production and consumption. Norwegian energy history is, from the 1900th Century on, about the movement of those boundaries and is composed of two stories. One deals with the mainland economy, the other deals with the foreign economy (the merchant marine, etc.). These two stories are closely connected but are nonetheless dissimilar.In this article, we present a sketch of the first story about energy consumption in the mainland economy, in the form of an energy accounting for the Norwegian mainland 1835-2012. The accounts show the accumulated consumption of energy from nine selected energy carriers in Norway. Our work is the first overall accounting 1835-2012, and gives new insights into the field of energy consumption research. Specifically, we provide a new accounting of Norwegian energy consumption in the years 1835-1900 and 1950-1976. In the result section we first present figures for energy consumption 1835-2012. Secondly, we briefly outline an energy history for the foreign sector. We round out the result section with a brief reflection on whether the Norwegian energy history is so deviant from other countries that we can talk about a separate Norwegian development.

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From organic to fossil and in-between: new estimates of energy consumption in the Swedish manufacturing industry during 1800–1913

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

The transformation of the organic energy system: the Swedish perspective

The transformation of the organic energy system: the Swedish perspective

Adaptability, diversification, and energy shocks: A firm level productivity analysis

Et energiregnskap for Fastlands-Norge 1835–2012

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