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Where is Your Power Coming From?
Catering to GIS and data geeks, the Center for Global Development has a new web-based tool for monitoring GHG emissions from powerplants across the world. Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies in every country on Earth.
To me, this has some really cool features. Embarrassingly, I had no idea where the most of the local power plants were located. Now, not only do I know where they are, but also how many megawatts they produce and how many tons of carbon dioxide they emit.
It would be really cool if they continue to develop this tool and would begin to indicate power sources and also show pictures of the plants (GIS tagged photos anyone?).
Update: Here’s why there’s little information on power sources: “Proprietary licensing agreements with some of our data suppliers prevent us from revealing the fuel sources (coal, gas, nuclear, etc.) of individual plants. Whenever possible, we reveal this information at the level of companies and geographic regions, although we group coal, oil, and natural gas into a “Fossil” category and combine various renewable technologies under a single heading (see the Glossary for details).”
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