New York State Fuel Combustion Emissions by Sector and Fuel Type

NYSERDA's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory provides estimated carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion within New York State. The dataset breaks down emissions by fuel type and economic sector for a given year. Columns suggest it likely contains annual totals for Transportation, Commercial, Residential, Industrial, and Electricity Generation sectors.

Use Cases

• Analyzing sectoral contributions to total state CO2 emissions using 'Percent of Total CO2 Emissions' and 'Sector' columns.
• Tracking changes in fuel-specific emissions over time using 'Year', 'Fuel Type', and 'Total CO2 Emissions'.
• Comparing relative emissions intensity across economic sectors like 'Transportation', 'Industrial', and 'Commercial'.
• Modeling the impact of fuel-switching policies by examining 'Fuel Type' breakdowns within each sector.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov signals its importance and official status.
• Data is provided by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), an authoritative state agency.

Limitations

• Key metadata is missing or conflicting: row count, file size, license, and author are not provided by any source.
• The temporal coverage is unclear; the description mentions 'the current year' but a 'Year' column is listed, suggesting it may be a time series.
• The Data.gov source lacks column information, limiting cross-platform understanding of the data structure.

Provenance

Source

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)

Collection Method

Estimated emissions inventory compiled from fuel combustion data.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-04 according to the most recent platform entry.

Geography

New York State