The Esri Story Maps squad has released a comprehensive demand to the American ability grid. An Atlas of Electricity explores where the USA gets its electricity from too how it distributes this ability across the country.
At the midpoint of An Atlas of Electricity is an interactive map plotting the place too size of the grid's ability plants too transmission cables. This map allows y'all to explore the place too capacity of the country's electricity producing ability plants too how they connect to the national grid.
As good every mo mapping the physical infrastructure of the electricity grid this even out map examines the principal unloose energy sources used to generate electricity inwards the USA. It maps the size too capacity of coal-fired ability plants, natural gas ability plants too stone oil ability plants. Alongside these fossil-fuel sources of ability An Atlas of Electricity plots the size too capacity of the U.S.'s nuclear ability plants, hydroelectric ability plants too solar & air current ability plants.
