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THE BIG PICTURE: Energy for Power
How much energy is consumed to produce power in the U.S.? Here's a visualization of data from the Energy Information
Administration (EIA) from a survey of more than 1,900 U.S. power facilities, collected between January 2015 and
December 2015. For non-combustible renewable sources, the EIA uses a heat rate of 9.510 Btu/kWh to calculate total
consumption of fuel for the purpose of generating electricity. That heat rate is the average heat rate for fossil fuel
plants and conceptually represents fossil fuel consumption that is " displaced " by renewable generation, the EIA
explained. Notes: MMBtu = one million British thermal units; numbers in parenthesis are a percentage of the total
38,853,274,968 MMBtu consumed in 2015. Source: Form EIA-923 detailed data (February 29, 2016)
-Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor
Natural Gas
10,396,739,681 MMBtu (27%)
Nuclear
8,338,525,495 MMBtu (21%)
Subbituminous Coal
6,781,659,663 MMBtu (17%)
Bituminous Coal
6,404,692,401 MMBtu (16%)
Water-Conventional Hydro, Marine
2,388,675,171 MMBtu (6%)
Wind
1,815,715,913 MMBtu (5%)
Lignite Coal
871,175,093 MMBtu (2%)
Wood/Wood Waste Solids
286,323,629 MMBtu (1%)
Solar
251,757,551MMBtu (1%)
Geothermal
159,457,516 MMBtu (<1%)
Black Liquor
136,406,542 MMBtu (<1%)
Landfill Gas
135,221,619 MMBtu (<1%)
Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste
132,392,767 MMBtu (<1%)
Non-Biogenic Municipal
Solid Waste
127,368,986 MMBtu (<1%)
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Electricity
generated in 2015
TOTAL: 4,087 TWh
*Other sources include synthesis gas
from petcoke; oil waste; other biomass
solids; kerosene; other fuel; refined
coal; other wood waste liquids; other
biomass liquids; jet fuel; sludge waste;
and gaseous propane.
Other Coal and Waste
109,113,406 MMBtu (<1%)
Petcoke
106,658,446 MMBtu (<1%)
Residual Fuel Oil
91,540,825 MMBtu (<1%)
Other Gas
75,917,520 MMBtu (<1%)
Distillate Fuel Oil
73,615,888 MMBtu (<1%)
Other Sources*
31,919,831 MMBtu (<1%)
Waste Heat
29,565,973 MMBtu (<1%)
Blast Furnace Gas
28,526,905 MMBtu (<1%)
Coal-Derived Synthesis Gas
24,327,256 MMBtu (<1%)
Other Biomass Gas
18,620,653 MMBtu (<1%)
Purchased Steam
14,282,838 MMBtu (<1%)
Tire-Derived Fuels
12,302,876 MMBtu (<1%)
Agricultural By-Products
10,770,524 MMBtu (<1%)
1%
2% 1%
3%
Other
5%
15%
6%
33%
16% 20%
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