alt Hacker News> First, you are confusing share of electricity generation with the share of all energy.
Think it was pretty obvious what I meant to all but the most pedantic, bud. But just to be clear, your issue here is that a think tank cited the same (notoriously anti-renewable Trump admin) government agency that you've cited multiple times yourself? That's what set off your spidey senses? Have you considered that this respected think tank isn't making up data, but you're just not able to find it?
> I guarantee you that by July, those adjustments will go away, because then the EIA data will be out.
Ember already has it hoss, they don't call it Milestone March for nothing.
The EIA is where Ember gets its data from.
It's where everybody gets their data from. Because they have thousands of employees collecting data. These are professionals, like the people at BEA, HUD, NIST, etc.
Ember, on the other hand, is a "decarbonization" think tank. They don't have their own data. They don't have the staff for it. What they do is analyze/spin, and in this case, augment, the raw data that is published by EIA. How do they augment the EIA data? All they do is round it to the nearest 2 decimals. It's exact copy and paste for every month except the last two, where the data is just made up.
And this entire article was written based on the augmentations by Ember, yet Ember cites it as EIA data. So let's check back in July, when EIA data will be out, and Ember will use that exact data, rounding it to the nearest 2 decimals. Save that blog page!
Something to think about.