CARMA – Monitoring global CO2 emissions

This looks awesome. It’s called CARMA – Carbon Monitoring for Action, and it’s a massive database of power plants from around the world, their electricity production and carbon emission. It tracks over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies around the world, and provides an easy to use map interface to interpret and view the data.

The home page of CARMA features a map with different coloured and differed sized circles on it depending on power production and carbon emission. The big, dirty plants are the big red circles, the clean plants are green and then there’s also the ones in the middle. You can click on any circle to find out more about a specific plant and then zoom down to a region. For example, here is Australia’s regional view. CARMA provides power trends, a list of our major power plants, a place for comments and even a comparison box that shows other similar countries.

The dataset really is quite astounding, and the easy to use interface makes this a great resource for anyone either researching carbon emission or just wanting to know more to reduce their own carbon footprint. Look out for the intensity rating that shows how much CO2 per megawatt-hour of energy is produced – this is a quick way to compare how efficient different power plants are.

For tips on how to make the most of CARMA, check out their blog, where there is a quick guide on how to get started.

(Via Rodrik)

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