The iea report The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions (May 2021) notes: Alongside a wealth of detail on mineral demand prospects under different technology and policy assumptions, it examines whether today’s mineral investments can meet the needs of a swiftly changing energy sector. It considers the task …
Read More »What is the source and end-use of CO2 emissions?
The eia diagram U.S. CO2 emissions from energy consumption by source and sector 2020 provides information on the source of CO2 and how that source is used. Archived energy flow diagrams and energy consumption graphs can be found on the Monthly Energy Review page, along with lots of data.
Read More »What are the energy use and emissions projections for 2021?
The IEA Global Energy Review 2021 (April 2021) provides an outlook for 2021 energy use and emissions. Energy use to go up: Global energy demand is set to increase by 4.6% in 2021, more than offsetting the 4% contraction in 2020 and pushing demand 0.5% above 2019 levels. Almost 70% …
Read More »How much wind power was installed in 2020?
From the eia article The United States installed more wind turbine capacity in 2020 than in any other year by Richard Bowers and Owen Comstock (3/32021): In both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed more wind power capacity than any other generating technology. According to data …
Read More »What are U.S. predicted energy CO2 emissions?
The eia article EIA’s AEO2021 shows U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions rising after the mid-2030s by Perry Lindstrom and Kevin Nakolan (2/11/2021) provides the graph copied here. EIA projects that U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will increase in the latter years of the projection as a result of increasing economic growth that …
Read More »Which 6 states together use more than half the jet fuel?
The eia article Six states accounted for more than half of U.S. jet fuel consumption in 2019 by Mickey Francis (1/27/2021) provides the graph here. Now, this isn’t surprising as CA, TX, FL, and NY are the four most populous states in that order. IL comes in 6 and GA …
Read More »Do oil and gas companies go bankrupt?
Well, of course they do. While we may be happy with low gas prices at the pump, may this cause problems in the future? I’m not sure but someone has to cover the debt that we see in the graphic here from Tracking the Growing Wave of Oil & Gas …
Read More »What is the fossil fuel percent of our energy consumption?
The eia post Fossil fuels account for the largest share of U.S. energy production and consumption by Bill Sanchez (9/14/2020) summarizes our energy production and consumption since 1950. From the graph copied here we see that even though we have increased renewable energy capacity they still make up a small …
Read More »What electric power record did we set in July?
The eia article The United States set record for daily natural gas power burn in late July by David Manowitz (8/26/2020) explains: In the United States, natural gas consumed by electric power plants (power burn) set a daily record high of 47.2 billion cubic feet (Bcf) on Monday, July 27, …
Read More »How much utility-scale battery storage do we have?
The eia reports on battery storage capacity in their post Utility-scale battery storage capacity continues its upward tend in 2018 by Alex Mey, Vikram Linga, & Patricia Hutchins (8/10/2020). Their main chart is copied here. By the end of 2018, the United States had 125 operational battery storage systems, providing …
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