Reply #103: Little Oil Used to Generate Electric Power Anymore [View All]

[evworldeditor]

Did a quick check and found that oil only contributes 3.3% of US power generation. Here's what the Energy Information Agency reports.


Year-to-date through December 2004, 50.0 percent of the Nation’s electric power was generated at coal-fired plants (Figure 1). Nuclear plants contributed 19.9 percent, 17.7 percent was generated by natural gas-fired plants, and 3.0 percent was generated at petroleum-fired plants. Hydroelectric power provided 6.6 percent of the total, while other renewables (primarily biomass, but also geothermal, solar, and wind) and other miscellaneous energy sources generated the remaining electric power.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html