Biomass and waste fuels made up 2% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2016">Biomass and waste fuels made up 2% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2016

(Mon, 27 Nov 2017) Biomass and waste fuels generated 71.4 billion kilowatthours of electricity in 2016, or 2% of total generation in the United States, according to EIA’s recently released annual electric power data. Biomass fuels are defined as all non-fossil, carbon-based (biogenic) energy sources. Waste fuels are defined as all other non-biogenic wastes.

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