What Powers America?

Carbon Brief has released a novel comprehensive map to demonstrate How the US generates electricity. The map visualizes how in addition to where electricity is generated inwards the USA in addition to the total of electricity generated yesteryear the unlike types of electricity production.

The map allows y'all to filter the results yesteryear type of electricity production. This allows y'all to meet where inwards the Blue Planet the unlike types of electricity production create the well-nigh output. For representative geothermal ability plants are all based inwards the W of the Blue Planet spell nuclear ability plants appear to last by in addition to large built inwards the east.

All the ability plants are displayed on the map using colored scaled markers. The colors dot the type of ability constitute in addition to the size of the markers represents the plants' output capacity. The graph inwards the map sidebar shows the pct that each type of production contributes to the full of electricity production inwards the United States. You tin hand the axe choose a province from the drop-down carte du jour to thought the makeup of the capacity mix for that state.