by Cassia Cai, UW Oceanography Graduate Student

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) has collaborated with the University of Washington’s Program on Climate Change (PCC) and its Actionable Community-Oriented Research eNgagement (ACORN) program to provide UW graduate students the opportunity to analyze key state and federal energy data. This collaboration has enabled the development of data visualizations for the Northwest Clean Energy Atlas, which I encourage you to explore. These visualizations can help regional decision-makers in planning the clean energy transition.

As an ACORN fellow, I updated Atlas visualizations using energy data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In this blog, I examine the recent shift in the EIA’s approach to calculating the primary energy consumption of electricity generation from noncombustible renewables.