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Description: <div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">Every time you turn on a light, charge your phone, or use a microwave to heat up a snack, you’re using electricity. How much electricity you use is measured in units called watts. When describing how much electricity many people use, or how much electricity a power plant can produce, we typically use megawatts. One megawatt is equal to 1000 watts. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">Power can be produced, or generated, in many ways. Since the Industrial Revolution, people have largely relied on nonrenewable sources of energy—<a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/fossil-fuels/" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; text-decoration-line:none;" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(70, 120, 134); font-size:12pt; text-decoration-line:underline; line-height:22.0875px; font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:none !important;">fossil fuels</a> such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Burning these fossil fuels generates energy, but it also produces a lot of the emissions that are driving global warming. Fossil fuels are considered a nonrenewable resource because there is a limited supply of them. These fuels are made from decomposing plants and animals. Over the course of millions of years, the decomposing matter was compressed under layers of rock and soil and intense heat to produce the materials we burn today as fuel. The natural processes that created fossil fuels are still at work, but they occur in geologic time rather than human time. For example, other phenomenon that are measured in geologic time are processes like the erosion that created the Grand Canyon and continental drift. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">Because electricity is so important to many parts of our lives, people have been developing new ways to generate it that don’t rely on fossil fuels. These fall into two broad categories: renewable energy and clean energy. <a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/renewable-energy/" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; text-decoration-line:none;" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(70, 120, 134); font-size:12pt; text-decoration-line:underline; line-height:22.0875px; font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures:none !important;">Renewable energy</a> comes from sources like the wind or sun. While the sun or wind might be stronger in some places than others, we won’t run out of either of these types of energy, no matter how much of it is converted to energy. Renewable energy also has little to no impact on the environment. Solar panels and wind turbines can be installed in farm fields and other open spaces with little disruption to the environment. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">Clean energy also can be generated without producing greenhouse gas emissions, but it has more of an environmental impact and may not be fully renewable. For example, nuclear power is considered clean energy because the nuclear reactions that are harnessed to produce energy don’t generate greenhouse <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; background-position:0px 100%; background-repeat:repeat-x; background-image:var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjMiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMzVGIiBzdHJva2UtbGluZWNhcD0icm91bmQiPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIC41aDVNMCAyLjVoNSIvPjwvZz48L3N2Zz4=")); border-bottom:1px solid transparent;">gasses. But nuclear energy does generate radioactive waste that must be carefully stored or disposed of. Nuclear fuel is also nonrenewable—there is a limit to the amount that people will be able to produce. Hydroelectricity is another form of clean energy. Using running water to spin turbines generates power without greenhouse gas emissions. But the dams that house these turbines and control the flow of water through them can have large impacts on the river ecosystems that they alter. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">This map shows two layers. The first shows the capacity of power plants in each state in the U.S. by fuel type. The <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:22.0875px; font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-variant-ligatures:none !important;">capacity of a power plant is the maximum amount of electricity it can produce in an hour. The bigger the circle, the greater the capacity. Most of the time, power plants don’t run at full capacity. This is an important measure to understand because it helps utility companies and government officials plan for times when a lot of people need to use electricity at once. This might be a time like a hot summer evening when everyone wants to run their air conditioner to cool their home, commute home on trains that rely on electricity to run, cook dinner, turn on lights, and do other routine chores and activities that use electricity. Times like this, when many people need a lot of electricity at the same time, are called <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:22.0875px; font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-variant-ligatures:none !important;">peak demand. Utility planners often use projections for peak demand to determine how much capacity is needed. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">The second layer shows the capacity of power plants around the world. </div><div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; clear:both; overflow:visible; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:12px;"> </div>

Copyright Text: Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2024 release.

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