Introduction Degree days are useful as a measure of building heating and cooling demands. A degree day is calculated as the difference between the average temperature (the average of the high and low temperature for the day) and a reference temperature (in the US 65°F is used). For example, if ...

Introduction In this analysis I look at trends in US electricity generation and associated CO2 emissions, using a nice data set available from Ember. Ember provides monthly and yearly data on US electricity generation and emissions for the total US as well as by state, both in total and broken ...

Introduction As you may know from a previous post I am interested in electric-vehicle (EV) trends and the transition to a more electrified transportation fleet. I wanted to do some mapping and spatial analysis, and I recently took the Creating Maps with R course by Charlie Joey Hadley, so I ...

Introduction Electricity generation is a major source of carbon emissions, and transitioning to cleaner and/or renewable sources of power generation is important to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and limiting the effects of climate change (as well as other benefits such as improving air quality). With the increase in electrification (...

Introduction Electricity generation is a major source of carbon emissions, and transitioning to cleaner and/or renewable sources of power generation is important to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and limiting the effects of climate change (as well as other benefits such as improving air quality). With the increase in electrification (...

Introduction Recently I’ve been interested in analyzing trends in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, using data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center’s Alternative Fuel Stations database. In this first post I’ll go over retrieving the data via ...

Introduction Recently I’ve been interested in analyzing trends in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, using data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center’s Alternative Fuel Stations database. In this first post I’ll go over retrieving the data via an API, getting it into a tidy format, and some ...

Tidy Tuesday: Energy (2023 - Week 23) Introduction In this document I’ll analyze and visualize some energy data that were the focus of Tidy Tuesday2023 week 23. The data comes from Our World In Data and the full data set is available here. Data Source...