I need statistics about energy consumption.

[Freeman]

I am working on my final for engineering and I need to find out the electricity consumption for Cheyenne Wyoming. I have been looking for a while now, and will continue to look, but if someone knows where I can find that number, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any help, JF

[Rockonmetal]

uh, google it, idk, uh, sorry that i don't know things like this off the top of my head...

[djr33]

I find this to be a very odd choice to ask here. Unless someone just happens to have done a similar report, or happens to live there AND work at a company that would have access to such facts, we really wouldn't know that.

And, just to give you a start, try googling simple phrases like "cheyenne energy consumption report" -- it might just work.

[jscheuer1]

I'd email the experts:

http://www.cheyennelight.com/contact.htm

[Freeman]

In light of more searching I came to this conclusion: To find that out you can use the ratio of population for a city vs. the population for the state and find out home much energy is consumed per person on average. Thanks for the, uh, advice in finding a solution.

[jscheuer1]

Possibly not very accurate. Definitely not a valid mathematical model for arriving at the figure. How important of a number will this be in your overall report? Per capita consumption in an urban area is likely to differ, perhaps significantly, from that in rural areas. But urban population should outweigh rural in most states, though perhaps not enough to make up for the difference, perhaps not at all in a heavily rural state. Different urban areas within a state might have different per capita consumption as well.

[djr33]

There are what? Approx 100,000 residents of Wyoming? Ok, let's cut that in half. 50,000 in the city. Ok, so, how much energy used by the whole country? Well, it's just division!

Nah. Just contact the local government. I'm sure they can tell you.

[jscheuer1]

The answer is 6.

[djr33]

The population of Cheyenne used 6 energy last year.

GOT IT!

[Freeman]

6 is rather close to the real number of 919,937,839 kWh in the year 2006. I e-mailed one of the power companies that is in Cheyenne wyoming. I used the ratio for the number because it didn't need to be terribly accurate. It just needed to show that it would be cost effective to switch entirely to wind power, which would be for them. According to our calculations, it would take about 15,000 acres of a wind farm to power cheyenne. a little bit expensive at first, but it would be quite a bit cheaper in the long run.