diff --git a/scripts/build_biomass_potentials.py b/scripts/build_biomass_potentials.py
index a2cb6d6a..d5e8139a 100644
--- a/scripts/build_biomass_potentials.py
+++ b/scripts/build_biomass_potentials.py
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ def build_nuts_population_data(year=2013):
     swiss = [swiss.groupby(swiss.index.str[:i]).sum() for i in range(2, 6)]
 
     # merge Europe + Switzerland
-    pop = pd.concat([pop, pd.concat(swiss)])
-    pop = pd.DataFrame(pop, columns=["total"])
+    pop = pd.concat([pop, pd.concat(swiss)]).to_frame("total")
     
     # add missing manually
     pop["AL"] = 2893