Energy State of the Union
Energy State of the Union |
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The object of this page is to present current information on energy in the United States. Where available, information related to global energy is included.
CONSUMPTION AND RESOURCES | ||||||||
| US | World | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel | Consumption/Yr | Heat Equiv Quadrillion BTU/Yr | Known Reserves | Projected Resource | Consumption/Yr | Heat Equiv Quadrillion BTU/Yr | Known Reserves | Projected Resource |
| Coal | 1129 million tons [1] | 22.829 [4] | 270,718 million tons [5] | 1,731,000 million tons [2] | 6483 million tons [3] | 122.6 [4] | 1,000,912 million tons [5] | 6,400,000 million tons [12] |
| Oil | 7548 million barrels [6] | 43.78 [8] | 20,972 million barrels [7] | 3,500,000 million barrels [13] | 31,007 million barrels [6] | 179.84 [8] | 84,949 million barrels [7] | 20,800,000 million barrels [13] |
| Nat Gas | 27,160 billion cu ft [9] | 27.959 [10] | 211,085 billion cu ft [11] | 1,190,620 billion cu ft [15] | 104,425 billion cu ft [9] | 107.998 [10] | 6,395,050 billion cu ft [11] | 10,139,000 billion cu ft [14] |
| Uranium | 18,000 tonnes U [16] | 8.34 [18] | 316,600 tonnes U [16] | 2,097,000 tonnes U [22] | 64,000 tonnes U [16] | 27.5 [19] | 3,192,500 tonnes U [16] | 35,000,000 tonnes U [21] |
| Thorium | Not used for fuel presently | N/A | 720,000 tonnes Th [24] | 2,097,000 tonnes Th [26] | Not used for fuel presently | N/A | 4,500,000 tonnes Th [25] | 35,000,000 tonnes U [26] |
YEARS OF SUPPLY AT CURRENT USAGE RATES | ||||||||
| US | World | |||||||
| Fuel | Known Reserves | Projected Resource | Known Reserves | Projected Resource | ||||
| Coal | 240 | 1533 | 154 | 987 | ||||
| Oil | 2.8 | 464 | 2.7 | 671 | ||||
| Nat Gas | 7.8 | 43.8 | 61 | 97 | ||||
| Uranium | 17.6 | 116 | 50 | 547 | ||||
| Advanced Uranium Fuel Cycle [23] | 528 | 3495 | 600 | 16,410 | ||||
| Advanced Uranium and Thorium Fuel Cycle | 1728 | 6990 | 3605 | 32,800 | ||||
| Coal | Petroleum | Natural Gas | Other Gases | Nuclear | Hydroelectric Conventional | Other Renewables | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | Other | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [27] | 1,990,926 | 64,364 | 813,044 | 16,060 | 787,219 | 289,246 | 96,423 | -6,558 | 13,977 | 4,064,702 |
| 49% | 1.5% | 20% | 0.4% | 19% | 7.1% | 2.3% | ||||
| World [28] | 7,755,000 | 1,096,000 | 3,807,000 | 2,793,000 | 3,121,000 | 18,930,000 | ||||
| 41% | 5.8% | 20% | 15% | 16% |
| Total | 351,301 |
| Biomass | 55,400 |
| Waste | 16,885 |
| Landfill Gas | 6,200 |
| Landfill Biogenic | 8,568 |
| Other Biomass | 2,117 |
| Wood and Derived Fuels | 38,515 |
| Geothermal | 14,839 |
| Hydroelectric Conventional | 248,312 |
| Solar/PV | 606 |
| Wind | 32,143 |
| Source: EIA 2007 |
EIA puts the world total energy for geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power generation at 369,710 million KWH. EIA 2005
[1] EIA 2007
[2] EIA 1997. Speculative judgement
[3] EIA 2005
[4] EIA 2005
[5] EIA 2005
[6] EIA 2007
[7] EIA 2006
[8] EIA
[9] EIA 2006
[10] EIA 2006
[11] EIA 2007
[12] None of the international agencies concerned with energy estimate the total available world coal resources. For this table, the projected resource is based on applying the ratio of projected-to-known reserves for the US (6.4) to the known world reserves.
[13] EIA 2008
[14] EIA 2008
[15] EIA 2000
[16] USGS 2002
[17] EIA 2007
[18] 806.5 billion KWH [17], based on 33% average thermal efficiency [EIA]
[19] 2,660.26 billion KWH [20], based on 33% average thermal efficiency [EIA]
[20] EIA 2006
[21] IAEA 2006
[22] Uranium 2005: Resources, Production, and Demand : a Joint Report. By OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency. Published by OECD Publishing, 2006. ISBN 9264024255, 9789264024250
[23] Advanced fuel cycles extract more than 30 times the energy as conventional. [OECD 2005]
[24] USBM 1985
[25] IAEA 2006
[26] Based on a comparison of known reserves between uranium and thorium, it is apparent that projected resources of thorium will at least equal those of uranium. For estimating purposes, the energy output of thorium can be equated to that of uranium [Thorium Energy and ThinkQuest].
[27] EIA 2006
[28] IEA 2008