The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy-related sources will continue to grow in the coming decades. EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019) projects that global energy-related CO2 emissions will grow 0.6% per…
Month: September 2019
Most wind capacity in the United States is designed for a medium wind speed environment
Most wind turbines in the United States were designed for medium wind environments, according to data collected in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Electric Generator Report. Wind design classes, as defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), range…
Maine and New York become the 6th and 7th states to adopt 100% clean electricity targets
As of the end of 2018, 29 states and the District of Columbia had adopted renewable portfolio standards (RPS), polices that require electricity suppliers to source a certain amount of their electricity from designated renewable resources or eligible technologies. Three…
U.S. sees largest weekly gasoline price increase since Hurricane Harvey
The U.S. average retail gasoline price increased by more than 10 cents per gallon (gal) from the previous week, based on data in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update. This increase was the largest since…
EIA projects nearly 50% increase in world energy usage by 2050, led by growth in Asia
In the International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019) Reference case, released at 9:00 a.m. today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. Most of this growth comes from…
Saudi Arabia crude oil production outage affects global crude oil and gasoline prices
On Saturday, September 14, 2019, an attack damaged the Saudi Aramco Abqaiq oil processing facility and the Khurais oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia. The Abqaiq oil processing facility is the world’s largest crude oil processing and stabilization plant, with…
Increase in U.S. fuel ethanol production capacity slows
Fuel ethanol production capacity in the United States totaled 16.9 billion gallons per year (gal/year) or 1.1 million barrels per day (b/d), as of January 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2019 U.S. Fuel Ethanol Plant Production…
Many wind turbines are slated to come online in the United States in 2019 and 2020
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that U.S. wind capacity additions in both 2019 and in 2020 will be near the annual record level of additions set in 2012. Wind capacity additions through June 2019 totaled 3.7 gigawatts (GW).…
Fossil fuels continue to account for the largest share of U.S. energy
Fossil fuels continue to account for the largest share of energy consumption in the United States. In 2018, about 79% of domestic energy production was from fossil fuels, and 80% of domestic energy consumption originated from fossil fuels. …read more…
Natural gas and wind forecast to be fastest growing sources of U.S. electricity generation
In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that natural gas-fired electricity generation in the United States will increase by 6% in 2019 and by 2% in 2020. EIA also forecasts that generation from wind…
