058 - Everyone's accepting climate (but polarisation is still a thing)

I've been collecting Essential Vision's data on climate science acceptance for quite some time - the data set's here. I recently added a second section tracking the % of people who concur with the scientific view, by party voting preference.

There's no decrease in polarisation - the gap between parties has remained roughly equal. But every single party has seen an increased percentage of people accepting the science.

The only recent decrease has been in the 'other' vote - for the first time on record, Liberal party voters are more likely to accept climate science than minor party voters.

057 - French non-nuclear output distribution

The website Gridwatch makes real-time data available on UK electricity output - I recently discovered French data on there too! You can access it here. France's grid is dominated by nuclear but has a large quantity of electricity exports and imports. The data below are from 20/11/2014 16:45

 to 28/05/2017 7:45, local French time. 

The charts below show power output averaged over that time period, for each 15 minute interval throughout an average day. You can view the data with and without nuclear (to get a closer look at the profiles of the other forms of generation). 

056 - French wind vs UK Wind - distribution

The website Gridwatch makes real-time data available on UK electricity output - I recently discovered French data on there too! You can access it here. France's grid is dominated by nuclear but has a large quantity of electricity exports and imports. The data below are from 20/11/2014 16:45

 to 28/05/2017 7:45, local French time.

The chart below is a comparison of the UK's wind power profile, compared to France's wind power profile (the UK data are from this post). 

055 - French grid data - output by fuel type

The website Gridwatch makes real-time data available on UK electricity output - I recently discovered French data on there too! You can access it here. France's grid is dominated by nuclear but has a large quantity of electricity exports and imports. The data below are from 20/11/2014 16:45

 to 28/05/2017 7:45, local French time. 

The chart below shows output by fuel type over the period. Enjoy! 

054 - Coal production by state

The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science makes a yearly energy statistics report available on their website here. It's full of interesting stuff - below is a selection showing total coal production by state (black and brown). Check the website for some caveats on coal definitions by state.

053 - Australian renewable generation - wind is catching up with hydro

The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science makes a yearly energy statistics report available on their website here. It's full of interesting stuff - below is a selection showing total Australian renewable energy output.

052 - Aus energy intensity by state

The Office of the Chief Economist's Energy Statistics database is a comprehensive annual long-term look at Australian energy, within the Government's Department of Innovation, Industry and Science. The chart below is extracted from their 2016 report and shows total energy intensity - the number of gigajoules consumed per unit of Gross State Product (GSP).