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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Is this true?

Tom Friedman had an essay in the New York Times this Wednesday about energy use: strategies for conservation, etc. Standard stuff, except for this: (emp add)

Thanks to the energy efficiency standards that California has imposed on its own power industry, buildings and appliances over the last 30 years — and its increasing reliance on renewable energy sources — California today consumes a little more than half as many kilowatt-hours of energy per capita each year as the rest of America. This has helped California avoid having to build a whole slew of power plants.

Friedman doesn't say where that information came from. Electricity use isn't everything, but it's a lot. If California is using half as much electricity, why not duplicate the standards on a nationwide basis?

posted by Quiddity at 4/26/2006 11:26:00 PM

4 comments

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/states/_seds.html

I wouldn't be surprised if Moustache of Understanding bungled his maths, but I am too sleepy to figure out the percapita numbers now..

By Anonymous, at 4/26/2006 11:43 PM

jeremy: thank you very much for providing that information.

By Quiddity, at 4/27/2006 12:23 PM

At my house in Ventura County, our electricity usage is DOWN for the third year running. The major is reason is our switch to compact-flourescent lights.

By Anonymous, at 4/27/2006 2:18 PM

The level of use of home air conditioning has to be a major factor.

By Carolyn, at 4/30/2006 1:36 PM