Electricity share of residential energy end use in the US, by state and by average temperature, 2021. Warmer states are vastly more electrified than colder states
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Electricity share of residential energy end use in the US, by state and by average temperature, 2021. Warmer states are vastly more electrified than colder states
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source: [https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/electrified-states-america](https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/electrified-states-america)
Electric states of America should be unironically a neoliberal slogan, It’s just sexy and cool
As a Floridian, I can confirm. Nobody uses gas here and 60% on average of electricity bills are used for cooling or the 2-3 weeks of cold we get per year.
So you’re saying sunnier states have more solar panels? Color me shocked!
> Be Massachusetts
> Make building nuclear power plants illegal because nuclear scary
> Remove existing Nuclear power plants
> 70% of electricity created from natural gas
> Governor blocks natural gas pipeline because green energy
> Government makes it extremely difficult to build green energy
> Jones act means have to buy most of our natural gas from overseas
> Spends years talking about offshore wind. Trump halts projects
> Mainers vote to block power lines that run Hydropower from Ontario to Massachusetts because they are jealous of Massachusetts swag
> Eventually Massachusetts wins in court
> Hydropower project triples in cost
> Ongoing droughts in Ontario make project effectiveness less certain
> Ontario threatens to cut off power in response to braindead Trump trade war
> State doesn’t cap energy efficiency program funded through electric/gas bills leading to extremely high delivery fees
> Have highest electricity rates in the country. Barely worth it to switch to heat pump
Pls send help we are in a prison of (mostly) our own creation
(Resistive) electric heat has a pretty bad reputation in the Northeast for being much more expensive than gas or oil. Which makes sense – with the gas-dominated grids of the Northeast today, you burn natural gas at the power plant, lose around half the energy turning that heat into mechanical work (due to the fundamental laws of thermodynamics) to spin the electrical generators, and then turn that hard-won electricity back into heat. It’s more efficient in that case to just burn the gas at your house at 100% efficiency converting it into heat.
In the South you don’t need heat as much, so (resistive) electric isn’t as much of an issue.
Natural gas can’t cool, when you don’t need much heating I’m not sure why you would go with it over more grid.