California
IE Questions: Why Is California Trying To Behead The Duck?
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Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
Inside Energy News
Will Wind Power Storage Be A Game Changer?
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Another massive, costly project is in the works to bring Wyoming wind to the West Coast. Are the Pathfinder/Zephyr Wind Project and the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in fierce competition or just responding to gigantic demand?
Arizona
Here Comes The Sun: The Rise Of Net Metering
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As rooftop solar becomes more affordable, tensions have grown between electric utility companies and residents. Why? A widespread policy called net metering, which requires utilities to purchase back power generated by their customers’ solar panels, is nibbling at utility company’s bottom lines.
Inside Energy News
Anti-Fracking Fight Goes Local
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KQED reports on how anti-fracking activists are taking the battle to the ballot.
BEA
Visualizing Wyoming And North Dakota’s Emissions-Intensive Economies
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As states ready for the Obama Administration to release new carbon emissions regulations next week, a major question looms: What’s the most sensible way to measure and compare greenhouse gas production? Two states dwarf all others when it comes to sheer amount of carbon dioxide released: Texas and California. Texas is such a carbon giant that it accounts for 12% of U.S. emissions and produces nearly twice as much as the next closest state, California. This graph shows 2011 carbon dioxide emissions based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) data:
But there’s more than one way to slice and dice emissions data. Looking at carbon dioxide produced per dollar earned by industry, the story changes: Wyoming tops all states in carbon emitted per dollar earned, followed by West Virginia and North Dakota.
