United States

We’ve added daily transit ridership statistics for the Washington D.C. metropolitan area from the local transit authority. The dataset provides the breakdown between the Metrorail and the Metrobus transit systems.  

In the chart below we compared both transit systems together with the grand total by rebasing all series to February 2020, and smoothing the series with a one-week moving average. It appears that only bus transit affluence came back above pre-pandemic levels. Looking at the second pane, where bus and rail traffic are presented in raw numbers, it appears that a shift happened in transportation mode: rail transit is low less favored, probably resulting from new working habits and work-from-home trend.  

China

We’ve added a new dataset covering the new energy grid connection and consumption situation per Chinese provincial region. “New energy” covers electricity generated through wind and solar technologies.  

The chart below displays the “national” capacity utilization figures for each technology – solar energy in the first pane, wind energy in the second pane, sliced per year. While the 2024 capacity utilization for wind energy is on par with the previous years, it is worth noting that solar energy is one percentage point below the trajectory of the past three years.