Month: February 2018 (page 2)

Hawaii has the highest residential electricity prices in the United States, averaging 27.5 cents per kilowatthour (kWh) in 2016—more than twice the national average. However, residential customers in four states spent more per household for electricity that year: South Carolina,…

EIA projects that the United States will become a net energy exporter in 2022 in the newly released “Annual Energy Outlook 2018” (AEO2018) Reference case, primarily driven by changes in petroleum and natural gas markets. The transition from net energy…

Spending on infrastructure to deliver power to homes and businesses has increased steadily over the past 10 years as utilities build, upgrade, and replace station equipment, poles, fixtures, and overhead lines and devices. …read more Source:: TODAY IN ENERGY       

EIA estimates that U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions declined by 861 million metric tons (14%) from 2005 to 2017. In the latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, EIA projects that CO2 emissions will rise 1.8%, from 5,143 million metric tons in…

The mix of fuels used to generate electricity in the United States has changed in response to differences in the relative cost of electricity-generating technologies and, for those technologies that consume fuel, the cost of fuel. …read more Source:: TODAY…

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018), released this morning, includes projections of U.S. energy markets through 2050 based on a Reference case and a number of sensitivity cases. …read more Source:: TODAY IN ENERGY       

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018), to be released at 10:00 this morning, includes projections of U.S. energy markets through 2050 based on a Reference case and a number of sensitivity cases …read more Source:: TODAY IN ENERGY       

China surpassed the United States in annual gross crude oil imports in 2017, importing 8.4 million barrels per day (b/d) compared with 7.9 million b/d for the United States. China had become the world’s largest net importer (imports minus exports)…

In July 2017, California’s state legislature passed assembly bill (AB) 398 to reauthorize and extend until 2030 the state’s economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction program. The bill sets a new GHG target of at least 40% below the 1990 level…

U.S. crude oil production reached 10.038 million barrels per day (b/d) in November 2017, according to EIA’s latest Petroleum Supply Monthly. November’s production is the first time since 1970 that monthly U.S. production levels surpassed 10 million b/d and the…