Energy Consumption in North America: Visualization and Pyramidal Perspective

Abstract

The objective is to visualize energy consumption in North America using pyramidal geometry. The base polygon is made up of four points representing non-renewable consumption and the top corresponds to renewable consumption. To achieve the appropriate momentum of each non-renewable point, obtaining more or less height in the pyramid, a linear regression was obtained where the dependent variable is renewable and the independent variables are non-renewable. To obtain an appropriate proportion, the values were transformed into logarithms. The model visually identifies the position of renewable energy use according to the reduction of non-renewables. The main limitation was to stick to the annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy report, which groups regional information and thus the results were also regional. The originality lies in the pyramidal visualization of regional energy consumption. Some conclusions indicate that reducing 5% in average refined products could stimulate the use of renewable energies from 118.80 to 172.73 million tons, while the same reduction, but in fuel consumption could stimulate renewable consumption up to 139.77 million tons.