e Energy Consumption Estimates by Type

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 \1

(Quadrillion Btu)
6.39 6.21 6.24 6.00 6.26 6.16 6.71 7.17 7.18 6.66 6.68 6.26 5.32 5.89 6.15 6.26 6.42 6.91 6.81 7.30

2.84 3.05 3.02 2.62 2.89 2.68 3.21 3.59 3.64 3.30 3.27 2.81 2.24 2.69 2.82 2.69 2.70 2.87 2.45 2.45
0.32 0.34 0.35 0.35 0.36 0.34 0.29 0.32 0.32 0.33 0.33 0.32 0.31 0.33 0.33 0.34 0.34 0.34 0.35 0.36
3.16 2.74 2.78 2.93 2.91 3.03 3.11 3.16 3.11 2.93 2.97 3.01 2.63 2.71 2.82 3.02 3.13 3.36 3.60 3.88
0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.09
0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.11 0.11 0.14 0.18 0.26 0.34 0.51

0.98 0.64 0.67 0.71 0.62 0.59 0.59 0.61 0.50 0.45 0.46 0.49 0.44 0.45 0.47 0.48 0.51 0.48 0.53 0.60
0.92 0.58 0.61 0.64 0.55 0.52 0.52 0.54 0.43 0.38 0.39 0.42 0.37 0.38 0.40 0.41 0.43 0.39 0.43 0.49
0.92 0.58 0.61 0.64 0.55 0.52 0.52 0.54 0.43 0.38 0.39 0.42 0.37 0.38 0.40 0.41 0.43 0.39 0.43 0.49
0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03
0.05 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.08

0.10 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.12 0.14 0.14 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12
0.10 0.09 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.13 0.13 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.09 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.11
0.08 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.07
0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.03
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

1.87 1.72 1.68 1.74 1.77 1.93 1.99 2.03 2.06 1.93 1.94 1.93 1.72 1.72 1.73 1.86 1.88 2.01 2.05 2.06
1.84 1.69 1.65 1.71 1.74 1.86 1.94 1.97 2.00 1.87 1.88 1.88 1.68 1.68 1.68 1.82 1.85 1.97 2.03 2.03
1.58 1.44 1.41 1.46 1.48 1.58 1.65 1.68 1.73 1.60 1.62 1.64 1.44 1.40 1.36 1.48 1.45 1.52 1.46 1.30
0.20 0.19 0.18 0.18 0.18 0.20 0.20 0.22 0.18 0.18 0.17 0.15 0.13 0.15 0.14 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.16 0.16
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01
0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02

0.07 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.12 0.14 0.14 0.17 0.23 0.30 0.35 0.48 0.61 0.83
0.07 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.12 0.14 0.14 0.17 0.23 0.29 0.33 0.45 0.57 0.79
(NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.04

3.37 3.69 3.71 3.36 3.66 3.42 3.89 4.31 4.37 4.03 4.03 3.58 2.91 3.45 3.60 3.50 3.57 3.83 3.51 3.69
0.23 0.32 0.35 0.40 0.41 0.43 0.42 0.44 0.45 0.44 0.45 0.45 0.34 0.38 0.40 0.39 0.41 0.41 0.42 0.42
0.10 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.15 0.15 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.13 0.13 0.15 0.17 0.17 0.18 0.18 0.19 0.18
0.13 0.19 0.23 0.26 0.26 0.28 0.30 0.30 0.31 0.31 0.32 0.32 0.21 0.23 0.23 0.22 0.22 0.23 0.24 0.24
0.31 0.33 0.34 0.34 0.35 0.32 0.28 0.30 0.31 0.31 0.31 0.30 0.29 0.30 0.30 0.31 0.31 0.31 0.31 0.31
2.81 3.01 2.98 2.59 2.86 2.62 3.15 3.53 3.58 3.24 3.22 2.77 2.21 2.65 2.78 2.66 2.67 2.84 2.43 2.43
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01

0.39 0.54 0.60 0.65 0.71 0.71 0.72 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.91 0.97 0.96 1.04 1.10 1.13 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.21 0.30 0.33 0.38 0.39 0.41 0.41 0.42 0.43 0.42 0.43 0.43 0.43 0.47 0.49 0.48 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.09 0.12 0.12 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.12 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.12 0.14 0.15 0.16 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.12 0.18 0.22 0.25 0.25 0.27 0.29 0.29 0.30 0.29 0.30 0.31 0.31 0.33 0.34 0.32 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.11 0.15 0.17 0.17 0.19 0.18 0.18 0.19 0.19 0.20 0.28 0.29 0.29 0.28 0.28 0.28 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.04 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.09 0.10 0.10 0.09 0.15 0.19 0.17 0.19 0.22 0.23 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
(Z) (Z) 0.01 (Z) 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)
0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.10 0.11 0.14 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA)

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HEADNOTE
[In quadrillion British thermal units (6.39 represents 6,390,000,000,000,000)
from sources that are essentially inexhaustible,
unlike fossil fuels of which there is a finite supply]

SYMBOLS
NA Not available.

FOOTNOTES
\1 Preliminary.
\2 Power produced from natural stream flow as regulated by available storage.
\3 As used at electric power plants, hot water or steam extracted from geother
in the Earth's crust that is supplied to steam turbines at electric power plan
generators to produce electricity.
\4 Wood and wood-derived fuels, municipal solid waste (from biogenic sources,
biomass), fuel ethanol, and biodiesel.
\5 The radiant energy of the sun, which can be converted into other forms of e
electricity net generation and solar thermal direct use energy.
\6 Energy present in wind motion that can be converted to mechanical energy fo
pumps, mills, and electric power generators. Wind pushes against sails, vanes
radiating from a central rotating shaft.
\7 Consists of living quarters for private households, but excludes institutio
\8 Wood and wood-derived fuels.
\9 Consists of service-providing facilities and equipment of businesses, gover
public organizations. Includes institutional living quarters and sewage treatm
commercial combined-heat-and-power and commercial electricity-only plants.
\10 Municipal solid waste from biogenic sources, landfill gases, agriculture b
and other biomass solids, liquids, and gases. Through 2000, also includes non-
solid waste from non-biogenic sources, and tire-derived fuels).
\11 Consists of all facilities and equipment used for producing, processing, o
industrial combined-heat-and-power and industrial electricity-only plants.
\12 Ethanol primarily derived from corn.
\13 Any liquid biofuel suitable as a diesel fuel substitute, additive, or exte
\14 Consists of electricity-only and combined-heat-and-power plants whose prim
\15 Generates electricity, but is not an electric utility.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration,

Annual Energy Review, annual.

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