Tuesday, July 11, 2006

2005 Electrical Power Sources in the US

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All measurements are in thousands of MegaWatthours

All Energy Resource Consumption in 2005

Coal[1] 2,014,173
Petroleum Liquids[2] 100,282
Petroleum Coke 21,628
Natural Gas 751,549
Other Gases[3] 15,644
Nuclear 780,465
Hydroelectric Conventional 265,078
Other Renewables[4] 92,088
Hydroelectric Pumped Storage -6,568
Other[5] 3,651

Total 4,037,989

Renewable Resources Period 2005

Wood[1] 37,828
Waste[2] 23,997
Geothermal 15,124
Solar 541
Wind 14,597
Total 92,088

Solar's percentage of total power in the US for 2005 0.000133978
Solar's percentage of total renewable power in the US for 2005 0.005874815

*US DoE provided information
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