A JavaScript-based data visualization documenting energy infrastructure in the united states.

Since July 2019, I have been helping develop a data visualization that documents all long-lived infrastructure (> 20 years service life) associated with extracting, processing, transporting, and using energy in the U.S.

This grant-funded project is a partnership between the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy, and the National Science Foundation. The application is a visual companion to a paper describing the resource inventory in preparation for submission to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While we are engaged in a national discourse on the merit and practicality of large scale energy transitions, this project informs a relevant, data-driven approach to investigating the details. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the research coming out of RDCEP. We will release our work as an open source project when we hand it off to the NSF, and I strive to keep the codebase easily scalable and maintainable for future developers. We are using vanilla JavaScript and D3.js on the client, and the application has a Python/Flask back-end.