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  "description": "All the energy the world uses each year since 1980, counting every fuel, expressed as average power in terawatts: the year's energy spread evenly over its hours. From US Energy Information Administration data.",
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      "description": "EIA's codes '--', 'NA' and 'ie' (which the file does not define) are null values whose reason quotes the code.",
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  "title": "Average power of the world's total energy use",
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