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Total Energy Consumption per person per state

Below is a list of states listed from highest energy consumption per person to lowest.  The values are in millions of BTUs per person per year.  There are a few surprising values.  For instance Alaska has very cold winters so I can understand a high number, but why does Wyoming having such a high value when it's climate is comparable to Colorado's climate which has a substantially lower value.  I would love to get a hold of average house sizes, and average temperatures per state and try and find a correlation to explain the disparaties between state energy usage per person.

 

 

Wyoming :  280103.28 

Alaska :  265958.12 

Louisiana :  219751.87   

North Dakota : 193665.62 

Iowa: 138187.13 

Texas : 133664

South Dakota : 130071.91

Kentucky : 127539.77

Nebraska : 123953.49

Montana : 123784.57

Indiana : 119772.45

Alabama : 118712.64

Oklahoma : 118526.42

West Virginia : 115157.14

Mississippi : 113123.67

Kansas : 112791.89

Arkansas : 107069.1

South Carolina : 101738.69

Minnesota : 100766.08

Tennessee : 99503.31

New Mexico : 97834.83

Idaho : 96576.66

Maine : 95873.43

Ohio : 92346.63

Wisconsin : 90481.31

Washington : 89303.32

District of Columbia : 89081.58

Missouri : 89055.68

Virginia : 88928.55

Georgia : 88078.78

Illinois : 86719.04

Pennsylvania : 84978.84

Colorado : 84863.85

Delaware : 84426.89

Oregon : 81756.24

New Jersey : 80689.76

North Carolina : 79725.06

Utah : 79513.27

Michigan : 79384.71

Nevada : 78591.58

Vermont : 74578.52

Maryland : 73641.28

Florida : 68005.97

New Hampshire : 67163.82

Connecticut : 65741.79

Arizona : 64699.4

California : 63603.59

Massachusetts : 63397.5

Hawaii : 61385.65

Rhode Island : 60776.19

New York : 57322.27

 

 

The source of the data is from http://www.eia.gov/state/seds/ it is for 2009