Fig. 5: A comparison of Nhs among each state in the US.
From: A measurement strategy to address disparities across household energy burdens
The bars are sorted by median household Nh and represent the interquartile range (25%-75% percentiles) of household Nhs colored by the percent of household energy expenditures in each state that goes to support fossil-fuel combustion, whether directly through natural gas purchases or indirectly through the electricity grid in each state. Natural gas purchases are assumed to be entirely combusted by the end-user, and electricity purchases are divided into their respective sources according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) for each state. Other expenditures are divided according to the primary heating fuels other than electricity or natural gas used by American households according to the Census, which are approximately 75% fossil-fuel combustion. The figure suggests that a reliance on fossil-fuel combustion does not lead to a more affordable energy system for end-users.
