This month’s monthly energy report (MER) includes the first complete set of 2014 preliminary statistics for U.S. total energy consumption, production, trade, and carbon dioxide emissions. The report is posted at: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/index.cfm?src=email
Note: Quadrillion: 1 x 10^15 (15 zeroes after the 1)
Preliminary energy data for calendar year 2014:
- U.S. primary energy consumption totaled 98 quadrillion Btu, a 1% increase compared with 2013. Renewable energy and natural gas consumption each increased 3%, nuclear electric power consumption increased 1%, and petroleum consumption was virtually unchanged, and coal consumption decreased 1%.
- Wind energy consumption: 1,734 trillion Btu
- Solar energy consumption: 427 trillion Btu
- Wind + solar = 2,161
- wind / wind + solar = 80%
- solar / wind + solar = 20%
As a percentage --
- Wind: 1,734 trillion / 98 quadrillion = 1.76939% (yes, less than 2%)
- Solar: 427 trillion / 98 quadrillion = 0.043571 (yes, rounding to nearest whole number = 0%)
- Wind + solar = 2,161 trillion / 98 quadrillion = 2.2051%
Back of the envelope:
- 2,161 / 1.03 = 2,098 trillion Btu in 2013
- wind: 80% x 2,098 = 1,678 Btu in 2013
- solar: 20% x 2,098 = 420 trillion Btu in 2013
- wind: 1,678 / 1,734 = a 3.3337% increase year-over-year
- solar: 420 / 427 = 1.7% increase year-over-year
- between wind and solar, wind accounts for 80% of renewable energy consumption in the US
- between wind and solar, solar accounts for 20% of renewable energy consumption in the US
- wind energy consumption accounts for less than 2% of total energy consumption in the US
- rounding to the nearest whole number, solar energy accounts for 0% of total energy consumption in the US
- wind energy increased 3.3% year-over-year, 2013 to 2014, in the US
- solar energy increased 1.7% year-over-year, 2013 to 2014, in the US
Diclaimer: I often make simple arithmetic errors. If this information is important to you, go to the source, which is conveniently linked at the top.
For warmists: ask yourself if you are getting value from your tax dollars going to renewable energy.
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