Abstract
The European market for wood pellets used in small-scale heating systems has been expanding significantly over the past decade. For an analysis of market efficiency in the Journal Energy with the title “The European wood pellets for heating market - price developments, trade and market efficiency“ wood pellet prices have been collected as well as trade flows downloaded for the trade relations between Austria, Germany, Italy and France. Only since January 2012 monthly wood pellet trade data is published by Eurostat. This, now monthly expanding data-set provides new opportunities for analysing the development of this important renewable energy commodity. Furthermore, national wood pellet prices published by national authorities and interest groups are improving in quality in the recent years. The collection and combination of these data-sets are a chance for novel econometric analysis. This paper presents valuable tools and processes to acquire and prepare this data and connects to a data and code repository for downloading the resources described in this and the related Journal Energy publication.
Highlights
The European market for wood pellets used in small-scale heating systems has been expanding significantly over the past decade
For an analysis of market efficiency in the Journal Energy with the title “The European wood pellets for heating market - price developments, trade and market efficiency“ wood pellet prices have been collected as well as trade flows downloaded for the trade relations between Austria, Germany, Italy and France
Since January 2012 monthly wood pellet trade data is published by Eurostat
Summary
Wood pellets are by traded quantity the single most important renewable energy carrier to date. Trade data and national prices are useful to understand how this commodity market is emerging, substituting energy carriers including coal, crude oil and natural gas. On the one hand, energy economic researchers might be interested in econometrically analysing the relationship between price and trade-developments. Commodity traders and financial markets experts might use this data to predict arbitrage opportunities. The accompanying research article in the Journal Energy uses this data to analyse the efficiency of this commodity market. Since January 2012 monthly wood pellet trade data is published by Eurostat. This, monthly expanding data-set provides new opportunities for analysing the development of this important renewable energy commodity. The collection and combination of these data-sets are a chance for novel econometric analysis
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