Electric Utility Net Generation of Electricity
(Based on year 2000 total kilowatthours generation)
Early Release of the Annual Energy Outlook 2003 - This link will take you to the most updated information.
Distribution & Transmission Improvements Needed - Power experts speak out about the inadequacies of the current power distribution network.
Electric Utility Net Generation by Renewables
(Based on year 2000 total kilowatthours generation)
RE Supporting / Energy Conserving Appliances
Energy Usage
The United States has only about 5% of the world's population, but is responsible for about one quarter of the total global primary energy demand.
Net oil imports accounted for 55 percent of total U.S. oil demand in 2001, up from 37 percent in 1980 and 42 percent in 1990, a trend that is expected to continue.
Electric Utility Restructuring
With some notable exceptions, the electric power industry historically has been composed primarily of investor-owned utilities.
These utilities have been predominantly vertically integrated monopolies (combining electricity generation, transmission, and distribution), whose prices have been regulated by State and Federal government agencies.
Restructuring the industry entails the introduction of competition into at least the generation phase of electricity production, with a corresponding decrease in regulatory control.
Restructuring may also modify or eliminate other traditional aspects of investor-owned utilities, including their exclusive franchise to serve a given geographical area, assured rates of return, and vertical integration of the production process.
Renewable Energy Resources
Renewable Energy is defined by resources that are naturally replenishing but flow-limited. They are virtually inexhaustible in duration but limited in the amount of energy that is available per unit of time.
Renewable energy resources include: biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave action, and tidal action.
Green Pricing
In the case of renewable electricity, green pricing represents a market solution to the various problems associated with regulatory valuation of the nonmarket benefits of renewables.
Green pricing programs allow electricity customers to express their willingness to pay for renewable energy development through direct payments on their monthly utility bills.