Figure 1. Energy Overview The United States was self-sufficient in energy until the late 1950s when energy consumption began to outpace domestic production. From 1970 to 2000, U.S. energy consumption grew 45 percent while production rose 13 percent. The Nation imported more energy to fill the gap.

Figure 2. Energy Consumption by Source Most energy consumed in the United States has come from fossil fuels. Renewable energy resources have supplied a relatively small but steady portion. In the late 1950s, nuclear fuel began to be used to generate electricity, and, by the late 1980s, contributed about the same share as renewable energy.

The Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) Annual Energy Review 2000 features an all-new introductory section, Energy Perspectives, that employs 67 selected graphs and accompanying captions to summarize key energy trends in the United States (see sample figures). These summary graphs, gathered into 17 general categories, allow users of the report to grasp major developments at a glance, and hint at the wealth of data contained in the tables and figures of the main body of the report's 413 pages.

The data series in the Annual Energy Review (AER) will benefit users of EIA's Monthly Energy Review (MER) by enlarging the energy context. For example, Figure 1.1 in this month's MER offers a general picture of energy consumption, production, and imports from 1973 through April 2001. The corresponding AER Figure 1 (right) extends the energy overview back an additional 24 years. AER Figure 2 at right does the same for the energy consumption by source data in Table 1.4 of the MER.

This year the Review benefits from significant data upgrades in the sections on electricity and renewable energy. The changes in the Electricity section reflect EIA's effort to stay abreast of ongoing developments in the restructuring of the electric power industry. This year's Renewable Energy section includes two new tables describing sectoral renewable energy consumption. In addition, several new tables in Section 2 (Energy Consumption by Sector) provide a more detailed sector-by-sector breakdown of total energy use. As before, many AER series extend back to 1949.

Annual Energy Review 2000, DOE/EIA-0384(00); 413 pages, 156 tables, 143 figures, 5 diagrams.

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