(Mon, 05 Jun 2017) The North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) recent <em>2017 Summer Reliability Assessment</em> finds that there are enough resources to meet this summer's projected peak electricity demand in all areas of the country.
(Fri, 02 Jun 2017) The U.S. electric power sector consumed 677 million short tons of coal in 2016, the lowest amount since 1984. Electric power sector coal consumption accounted for more than 93% of all coal consumed in the United States, and more than two-thirds of this coal was shipped either completely or in part by rail.
(Thu, 01 Jun 2017) Generation from small-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems totaled about 37% of the annual generation from all U.S. solar PV electricity generators in 2016. EIAâs small-scale category includes PV systems that have less than one megawatt (MW) of generating capacity.
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in sent shockwaves through the Asia thermal coal market when, on his election in May, he announced his intention to halt the building of new coal-fired power plants and to phase out some of the country’s ageing coal-fired generators.
(Wed, 31 May 2017) The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will hold its 36th auction for carbon dioxide (CO2) emission allowances on June 7. In the previous auction, held in March, more than 14 million allowances were sold at a clearing price of $3.00 per short ton of CO2, the lowest price in more than three years.
(Wed, 31 May 2017) This report discusses the methods used to conduct the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). EIA also released a preliminary public-use microdata file and guidance on working with the RECS data.
(Wed, 31 May 2017) Data from the most recent study, the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), show the characteristics that contribute to energy consumption in homes today and highlight differences in how energy is used across the nation's 118.2 million households.
(Tue, 30 May 2017) The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is hosting its 2017 Energy Conference on Monday, June 26, and Tuesday, June 27, in Washington, DC. This two-day event provides an opportunity to meet and network with energy analysts, decision makers, and EIA staff.
(Fri, 26 May 2017) Gasoline prices heading into Memorial Day weekend average $2.40 per gallon (gal) nationally, up from last year's price of $2.30/gal. Despite the year-over-year increase, 2017 marks the second-lowest price ahead of the Memorial Day weekend since 2009, when the national average price of retail regular gasoline was $2.31/gal.
(Thu, 25 May 2017) Beyond the main sources of electricity generation capacity in the United States that have recently been discussed in a series of <em>Today in Energy</em> articles, additional amounts of utility-scale capacity are provided by technologies such as hydroelectric pumped storage, batteries, flywheels, and renewable fuels other than hydro, wind, and solar.
