Energy Update

Global warming is a term that pervades all international forums ranging from economics, food security, and energy production to security. Such is the importance of this debate that all nations have had to compromise on a mutual strategy to save energy and in turn reverse the perverse effects of global warming. This is an issue that might sound remo

(Thu, 19 Feb 2015) New monthly data are available for electricity, natural gas, and coal series. In addition, the Quick Facts and analytical narratives for Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin have been updated. New annual data for 2013 are also available for coal production, average coal sales price, and recoverable reserves at producing coal mines.

(Thu, 19 Feb 2015) Contains detail data on peak load, generation, electric purchases, sales, revenues, customer counts and demand-side management programs, green pricing and net metering programs, and distributed generation capacity. New for 2013: Demand Response, Distribution Systems, Dynamic Pricing, Energy Efficiency, and Reliability. Green pricing and demand-side management data were no longer collected after 2012.

(Thu, 19 Feb 2015) In 2014, more than 10% of the electricity used in the grid covering most of Texas came from wind generation, according to the grid's operator, ERCOT. Wind's share of the ERCOT generation mix grew from 6.2% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2014 as total electricity generation increased over the same period by 11.3%. The growth in wind generation is a result of new wind plants coming online and grid expansions that have allowed more wind power to flow through the system to consumers.