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Today in Energy - Manufacturing Consumption & Efficiency
Short, timely articles with graphs about recent manufacturing consumption and efficiency issues and trends |
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Today in Energy - Energy Efficiency
Short, timely articles with graphs about recent energy efficiency issues and trends |
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Today in Energy - Residential Consumption & Efficiency
Short, timely articles with graphs about recent residential consumption and efficiency issues and trends |
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Today in Energy - Commercial Consumption & Efficiency
Short, timely articles with graphs about recent commercial consumption and efficiency issues and trends |
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Today in Energy - Transportation Consumption & Efficiency
Short, timely articles with graphs about recent transportation consumption issues and trends |
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Annual Energy Review - Consumption Section
Released: September 27, 2012 annual statistics on energy consumption. |
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Monthly Energy Review - Consumption Section
Released: September 26, 2012 Recent statistics on energy consumption. |
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What Are the Major Sources and Users of Energy in the United States?
Released: October 25, 2011 Energy in Brief article on energy sources in the U.S. |
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Energy Intensity Trends in AEO2010 (released in AEO2010)
Released: May 11, 2010 Energy intensity (energy consumption per dollar of real GDP) indicates how much energy a country uses to produce its goods and services. From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, U.S. total primary energy consumption and real GDP increased at nearly the same annual rate (Figure 17). During that period, real oil prices remained virtually flat. In contrast, from the mid-1970s to 2008, the relationship between energy consumption and real GDP growth changed, with primary energy consumption growing at less than one-third the previous average rate and real GDP growth continuing to grow at its historical rate. The decoupling of real GDP growth from energy consumption growth led to a decline in energy intensity that averaged 2.8 percent per year from 1973 to 2008. In the AEO2010 Reference case, energy intensity continues to decline, at an average annual rate of 1.9 percent from 2008 to 2035. |
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Summary of Provisions (released in AEO2010)
Released: May 11, 2010 ARRA, signed into law in mid-February 2009, provides significant new Federal funding, loan guarantees, and tax credits to stimulate investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. The provisions of ARRA were incorporated initially as part of a revision to the AEO2009 Reference case that was released in April 2009, and they also are included in AEO2010. |
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Comparing Efficiency Projections (released in AEO2010)
Released: May 11, 2010 Realized improvements in energy efficiency generally rely on a combination of technology and economics [47]. The figure below illustrates the role of technology assumptions in the AEO2010 projections for energy efficiency in the residential and commercial buildings sector. Projected energy consumption in the Reference case is compared with projections in the Best Available Technology, High Technology, and 2009 Technology cases and an estimate based on an assumption of no change in efficiency for building shells and equipment. |
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Energy Demand (released in AEO2010)
Released: May 11, 2010 Growth in U.S. energy use is linked to population growth through increases in demand for housing, commercial floorspace, transportation, manufacturing, and services. This affects not only the level of energy use, but also the mix of fuels and consumption by sector. |
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Industrial Sector Energy Demand: Revisions for Non-Energy-Intensive Manufacturing (released in AEO2007)
Released: March 11, 2007 For the industrial sector, EIAs analysis and projection efforts generally have focused on the energy-intensive industriesfood, bulk chemicals, refining, glass, cement, steel, and aluminumwhere energy cost averages 4.8 percent of annual operating cost. Detailed process flows and energy intensity indicators have been developed for narrowly defined industry groups in the energy-intensive manufacturing sector. The non-energy-intensive manufacturing industries, where energy cost averages 1.9 percent of annual operating cost, previously have received somewhat less attention, however. In AEO2006, energy demand projections were provided for two broadly aggregated industry groups in the non-energy-intensive manufacturing sector: metal-based durables and other non-energy-intensive. In the AEO2006 projections, the two groups accounted for more than 50 percent of the projected increase in industrial natural gas consumption from 2004 to 2030. |
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Biofuels in the U.S. Transportation Sector (released in AEO2007)
Released: February 22, 2007 Sustained high world oil prices and the passage of the EPACT2005 have encouraged the use of agriculture-based ethanol and biodiesel in the transportation sector; however, both the continued growth of the biofuels industry and the long-term market potential for biofuels depend on the resolution of critical issues that influence the supply of and demand for biofuels. For each of the major biofuelscorn-based ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodieselresolution of technical, economic, and regulatory issues remains critical to further development of biofuels in the United States. |
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Changing Trends in the Bulk Chemicals and Pulp and Paper Industries (released in AEO2005)
Released: February 1, 2005 Compared with the experience of the 1990s, rising energy prices in recent years have led to questions about expectations of growth in industrial output, particularly in energy-intensive industries. Given the higher price trends, a review of expected growth trends in selected industries was undertaken as part of the production of AEO2005. In addition, projections for the industrial value of shipments, which were based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system in AEO2004, are based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) in AEO2005. The change in industrial classification leads to lower historical growth rates for many industrial sectors. The impacts of these two changes are highlighted in this section for two of the largest energy-consuming industries in the U.S. industrial sectorbulk chemicals and pulp and paper. |
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Measuring Changes in Energy Efficiency for the Annual Energy Outlook 2002
Released: July 1, 2002 This paper describes the methodology used to develop the NEMS estimate of projected aggregate energy efficiency and to describe the results of applying it to the Annual Energy Outlook 2002 (AEO2002) reference case. |
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Delivered Energy Consumption Projections by Industry in the Annual Energy Outlook 2002
Released: June 1, 2002 This paper presents delivered energy consumption and intensity projections for the industries included in the industrial sector of the National Energy Modeling System. |
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Energy Efficiency Definition
Released: June 19, 2000 This web site discusses some commonly-accepted definitions of energy efficiency. |
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Energy Efficiency Measurement Discussion
Released: June 19, 2000 Energy-Efficiency Measurement, Energy Efficiency Measures, Policy Issues, and Energy Intensity provides information on indices as a measure of relative changes and other approaches and measurement Issues. |
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Statement Before the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, & Reg. Affairs
Released: February 2, 2000 Presented by: Jay E. Hakes, U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC February 2, 2000 |
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Developing Energy Indicators in the U.S.: The EIA Experience
Released: October 17, 1999 This web site discusses the EIA experience in developing energy intensity indicators. |
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U.S. Economy Energy-Efficiency Workshop
Released: October 17, 1999 The participant discussions in this session suggested EIA has opened Pandora's box. Participants seem well aware of the difficulties and complexities of doing energy-efficiency assessments for entire economy. |
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United States Energy Usage and Efficiency: Measuring Changes Over Time
Released: October 17, 1999 This paper first presents EIA's history and role as an energy data source. Next provides a brief synopsis of the developments in EIA's energy-efficiency project since it began in 1993. |
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Measuring Energy Efficiency in the Unites States Economy, A Beginning
Released: October 1, 1995 Addresses the definitional and methodological issues surrounding the measurement of energy efficiency. Since energy efficiency can rarely be measured directly, the report focuses on the changes in energy intensity with various techniques in each of the sectors. |
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A Comparison of Measures by Consumption and Supply Surveys
Released: June 15, 1988 This report was prepared in response to a request from the Office of Policy Integration in the U.S. Department of Energy for an analysis of how Energy Information Administration data from its consumption surveys compares with data from its supply surveys. |
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