(Tue, 24 May 2016) Renewable electricity generation in Germany increased to 194 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2015, representing 31% of the country's gross electricity generation. The renewables electricity growth in 2015 was the largest in both percentage and absolute terms (19% and 32 billion kWh, respectively) in at least a decade.
(Mon, 23 May 2016) The United States remained the world's top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2015, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. U.S. petroleum and natural gas production first surpassed Russia in 2012, and the United States has been the world's top producer of natural gas since 2011 and the world's top producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013.
(Fri, 20 May 2016) The western United States, particularly California, has experienced drought over the past several years, but there are now signs of improvement. Since June 2013, most of California has been in a severe, extreme, or exceptional drought, the worst three drought designations as determined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
(Thu, 19 May 2016) Natural gas-fired power generation increased 19% in 2015, because of low natural gas prices, increased gas-fired generation capacity, and coal power plant retirements. EIA's May 2016 Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts that this year, natural gas-fired generation will exceed coal generation in the United States on an annual basis.
(Wed, 18 May 2016) Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. The country experienced an oil production boom between 2002 and 2008 when production started at several deepwater fields.
(Wed, 18 May 2016) Trends in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation through 2040 depend significantly on whether or not the Clean Power Plan (CPP) rule issued last August by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is implemented. Analysis in EIA's <em>Annual Energy Outlook 2016</em> (AEO2016) examines what the CPP could mean for the fuels used to generate electricity, especially coal.
We explore a key question that emerged from Platts' recent European power conference: is Europe's wholesale
power price collapse structural, or could central plant closures prompt a post 2020 recovery?
(Tue, 17 May 2016) The U.S. Energy Information Administration provides a long-term outlook for energy supply, demand, and prices in its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). This outlook is centered on the Reference case, which is not a prediction of what will happen, but rather a modeled projection of what might happen given certain assumptions and methodologies. Today, EIA released an annotated summary of the AEO2016 Reference Case?which includes the Clean Power Plan?and a side case without the Clean Power Plan.
(Tue, 17 May 2016) This release is an annotated PowerPoint summary and the data for two cases from the Annual Energy Outlook 2016. The cases released today are the Reference case, which includes one possible implementation of the final Clean Power Plan (CPP) rule promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency, and a No-CPP case, which assumes that the CPP rule is not implemented. Both cases show substantially more growth in electricity generation from wind and solar energy than EIA's previous projections.
(Tue, 17 May 2016) With this release, the CBECS consumption and expenditures data is complete. The 2012 CBECS consumption and expenditures detailed tables are comprised of Tables C1-C38, which cover overall electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and district heat consumption, and tables E1-E11, which disaggregate the same energy sources by end use (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.). All of the detailed tables contain extensive row categories of building characteristics.
