BTS | Table 4-2: U.S. Consumption of Energy from Primary Sources by Sector

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Table 4-2: U.S. Consumption of Energy from Primary Sources by Sector

(Quadrillion Btu)

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	^R1999	2000
Energy consumption
Transportation	10.56	12.40	16.06	18.21	19.66	20.02	22.49	22.08	22.42	22.84	23.47	23.92	24.47	24.77	^R25.34	26.26	27.04
% of total	24.1	23.5	24.2	^R25.3	^R25.1	^R26.1	^R26.7	^R26.2	^R26.2	^R26.2	^R26.3	^R26.3	^R26.0	^R26.3	^R26.8	27.1	27.3
Industrial	16.26	19.24	21.92	^R21.42	^R22.64	^R19.51	^R21.11	^R20.75	^R21.68	^R21.93	^R22.64	^R22.96	^R23.72	^R23.89	^R23.55	24.05	24.46
% of total	37.1	36.5	33.0	^R29.7	^R28.9	^R25.4	^R25.0	^R24.6	^R25.4	^R25.1	^R25.4	^R25.2	^R25.2	^R25.3	^R24.9	24.8	24.7
Residential and commercial	8.75	10.00	12.14	^R12.03	^R11.60	^R10.70	^R10.24	^R10.52	^R10.75	^R10.98	^R10.86	^R11.02	^R11.73	^R11.29	^R10.38	10.78	11.40
% of total	20.0	19.0	18.3	^R16.7	^R14.8	^R13.9	^R12.1	^R12.5	^R12.6	^R12.6	^R12.2	^R12.1	^R12.5	^R12.0	^R11.0	11.1	11.5
Energy Input at electric utilities	8.19	11.01	16.27	^R20.38	^R24.54	^R26.55	^R30.50	^R30.94	^R30.66	^R31.55	^R32.25	^R33.03	^R34.01	^R34.39	^R35.35	35.77	36.19
% of total	18.7	20.9	24.5	^R28.3	^R31.3	^R34.6	^R36.2	^R36.7	^R35.9	^R36.1	^R36.1	^R36.3	^R36.2	^R36.5	^R37.4	36.9	36.5
Total	43.80	52.68	66.43	^R72.04	^R78.44	^R76.78	^R84.34	^R84.30	^R85.51	^R87.30	^R89.21	^R90.94	^R93.93	^R94.34	^R94.61	96.85	99.08
Percentage of primary demand met by petroleum
Transportation	96.0	95.7	95.3	96.7	96.7	97.4	97.0	97.2	97.3	97.2	97.0	97.0	97.0	96.9	97.4	97.1	97.1
Industrial	35.4	35.3	35.5	^R38.0	^R42.1	^R40.0	^R39.4	^R38.8	^R39.8	^R38.5	^R39.1	^R37.5	^R38.2	^R38.9	^R38.7	39.1	37.4
Residential and commercial	39.8	38.6	35.4	^R31.6	^R26.2	^R23.6	^R21.2	^R20.5	^R19.8	^R19.5	^R19.3	^R18.8	^R19.1	^R19.2	^R19.2	19.7	19.4
Electric utilities	6.7	6.7	13.0	^R15.5	10.7	4.1	^R4.1	^R3.8	^R3.1	^R3.3	^R3.0	^R2.0	^R2.1	^R2.4	^R3.3	2.6	2.2

^a Discontinuity in data between earlier years and 1990 is due to attempts to include sector consumption of renewable energy beginning in that year.

KEY: Btu = British thermal unit; R = revised.

NOTES: The data for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors include only fossil fuels consumed directly. Most renewable fuels are not included. The data for the transportation sector includes only fossil and renewable fuels consumed directly. The data for electric utilities includes all fuels (fossil, nuclear, geothermal, hydro, and other renewables) used by electric utilities. Due to a lack of consistent monthly historical data, some renewable energy resources are not included in this table. The totals in table 4-4 are the best numbers for total U.S. energy consumption from all sources.

Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCES:

1960-70: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 1990, DOE/EIA-0394(90) (Washington, DC: May 1991), table 4.

1975-2000: Ibid., Monthly Energy Review, DOE/EIA-0035(2001/07) (Washington, DC: July 2001), tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.