Electricity Maps Blog

Carbon emissions can be calculated based on flow-traced or production-only data. This blog post highlights why flow-traced carbon intensity must be used for higher accuracy.

Both private and corporate electricity consumers have the ability to procure clean electricity with the ambition to fund the energy transition. However, do all purchases lead to tangible reductions in emissions?

In 2022, electricity consumption in Europe decreased by 4% compared to 2021 levels. This is due to a mild winter, sobriety efforts, but also high prices during the energy crisis following the invasion of Ukraine.

In 2022, total average electricity consumption increased in the United States by 4% compared to 2021. This is in particular due to several severe weather events. Learn more in the blog post.

During the Christmas period, storm Elliott hit the US with freezing temperatures. This had a great impact on some of the US power grids. This resulted in record high demand as well as tons of extra CO2 emitted.

Today, we’re launching a new improvement to Electricity Maps which will improve the precision of our carbon emission data. Learn more about regional emissions, and the methodology behind it, in this blog post:

There is a great focus from both EV users and the EV industry on the carbon savings you can achieve by charging your car at different times. But how much carbon savings can you actually achieve by shifting your charging

It was around the beginning of 2016 that I started becoming obsessed with how data could act as a catalyst to put humanity back on a sustainable path. Climate change is a major issue, which was at the time completely...

As I write this introduction, I have been working as a data scientist for Electricity Maps for about 8 months. Overall, I am responsible, together with the other data scientist in the team, for delivering high data...