Politics & Government

AC Much? Woodbury Leads the Pack in Home Energy Use

Woodbury, Oakdale and 18 other cities are included in a new website that the Star Tribune calls 'a huge storehouse of local energy data.'

Homes in Woodbury used more energy in 2011 than homes in 15 other Twin Cities suburbs studied, according to a new website. But Edina and Lake Elmo bested Woodbury on per-household energy use. 

The new website, Regional Indicators Initiative, shows how Woodbury stacks up with 15 Twin Cities suburbs and four big cities (Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Duluth) in colorful charts. They show greenhouse gases emitted, solid waste created, vehicle miles traveled, and energy and water used. 

The RII website is "a huge storehouse of local energy data," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune: 
 
It enables citizens to assess emissions from residential and commercial energy use, transportation and other activities within each of the 20 cities’ borders from 2008 through 2011.  ... Users can sort through the data by adjusting for each city’s population, by the number of households and other factors, including distinctions for residential and commercial and industrial use. The site also has data on waste and water use, as well as on energy bills.

Read the full article at startribune.com

Visit the Regional Indicators Initiative website at regionalindicatorsmn.uli.orgTo find Woodbury data, click on "Explore the Data" in the menu bar and choose a category. Note that the first graph you see will be for the year 2008 but you can click other years as well as make other selections. To understand what you're looking at, click on "So What?" in the menu bar and then choose "Making Sense of the Numbers."


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