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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11262)9/9/2010 10:25:15 AM
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US electrical generation - Where we are now
Posted by Gail the Actuary on September 9, 2010 - 9:30am

Last week, Hannes Kunz and Nate Hagens put up one post talking about electricity, and they are planning another post in the near future. I thought now might be a good time to put up a few graphs regarding US electricity generation, showing where we are now. Most of the graphs are summaries of data from the Energy Information Administration website, either from the renewables section, or the electricity section.

Figure 1 - Amounts of US Electricity Generated by Source

Figure 1 shows the largest source of US electricity is from coal. Following behind these are natural gas and nuclear. The amount of electricity generated using natural gas and nuclear have both grown in recent years--natural gas because more natural gas generation was built; nuclear because ways were found to increase the amount of electricity obtained from existing plants, by upgrading their capacity and by operating them more hours. "Other renewables" have grown from 2.2% of the total in 1996 to 3.57% of the total in 2009. Pretty much all of this increase has taken place in the last four years.

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