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This USA data seems kind of strange to me. For instance my home state, Kansas, we are fourth in the nation for installed wind capacity, supplying 41% of our ene

This USA data seems kind of strange to me. For instance my home state, Kansas, we are fourth in the nation for installed wind capacity, supplying 41% of our energy demand. Our sole nuclear power plant provides an 18% base load. 33% is coal and the rest random crap. We're very population sparse and low population in general. Yet in other areas of the country that are strictly coal and natural gas fired, with a greater population density and higher total population, they're less turd colored. I'm guessing this is a strange interaction between renewable availability or it just might be a lack of available data.

westurner 6y ago
From https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#data-sources https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#data-sourc... : > Here are some of the ways you can contribute: > Building a new parser, Fixing a broken parser, Changes to the frontend, Find data sources, Verify data sources, Translating electricitymap.org, Updating region capacities I sent a few tweets and emails about the data in this region but nothing happened here either
godelski 6y ago
Let's look at PJM: Gas (39%, 490gCO2eq/kWhr), nuclear (36%, 12gCO2/kWhr), coal (16%, 820gCO2eq/hr), wind (6%, 11gCO2eq/hr). So that's ~327. So despite coal being 16% of the energy production, it is 40% of the emissions and gas is 58% of the emissions. Looking at NYISO we see a different story. Currently there is a lot grayed out in the gas area. Right now gas is 28% of the total electricity generation while peak of the day it is 39%. If you look at CISO (California) you'll see the opposite happen. Mid day solar takes over and emissions drop. The famous Duck Curve. They go from 150gCO2eq/kWhr in the morning to more than double that at night. You'll also see wind die down at times. Interesting thing is how hydro changes. So a lot comes down to how you're providing your base load and what energy sources you are using at what times in the day. If you look around the map a lot you'll see that a lot of countries/areas that have very consistent loads (and hence emissions) export a lot of their energy at those different times. While a lot of people like looking at averages the problem here is substantially complex because there's temporal components (hourly, weekly, seasonly) as well as a lot of environmental factors.

westurner 6y ago

From https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#data-sources https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#data-sourc... : > Here are some of the ways you can contribute: > Building a new parser, Fixing a broken parser, Changes to the frontend, Find data sources, Verify data sources, Translating electricitymap.org, Updating region capacities I sent a few tweets and emails about the data in this region but nothing happened here either

godelski 6y ago

Let's look at PJM: Gas (39%, 490gCO2eq/kWhr), nuclear (36%, 12gCO2/kWhr), coal (16%, 820gCO2eq/hr), wind (6%, 11gCO2eq/hr). So that's ~327. So despite coal being 16% of the energy production, it is 40% of the emissions and gas is 58% of the emissions. Looking at NYISO we see a different story. Currently there is a lot grayed out in the gas area. Right now gas is 28% of the total electricity generation while peak of the day it is 39%. If you look at CISO (California) you'll see the opposite happen. Mid day solar takes over and emissions drop. The famous Duck Curve. They go from 150gCO2eq/kWhr in the morning to more than double that at night. You'll also see wind die down at times. Interesting thing is how hydro changes. So a lot comes down to how you're providing your base load and what energy sources you are using at what times in the day. If you look around the map a lot you'll see that a lot of countries/areas that have very consistent loads (and hence emissions) export a lot of their energy at those different times. While a lot of people like looking at averages the problem here is substantially complex because there's temporal components (hourly, weekly, seasonly) as well as a lot of environmental factors.