United States of America Energy Situation

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Overview

The United States of America

 
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 Capital

 Washington D.C

 38°53'N 77°01'W

 Official language(s)

 None at federal level [a]

 Government

 Federal presidential    constitutional republic

 President

 Barack Obama

 Total area

 9,826,675 km2[1]

 Population

 313,206,000 (2012)[2] 

 Rural population

 55,700,625 (2011)[3] 

 GDP (nominal)

 $15.065 trillion (2011)[4] 

 GDP Per capita

 $48,147 (2011)[5] 

 Currency

 United States Dollar $ USD 

 Time zone

(UTC- 5 to -10)

Summer (DST) (UTC - 4 to  -10)

 Electricity generation 

 4,253.3 TWh/year (2009)[6] 
 Access to Electricity  ~100%

 Wind energy (installed capacity)

 43,635 MW (2011) [7]

 Solar Energy (installed capacity)

 3,954  MW (2011)[8]


Energy situation 

Energy in the United States of America are produced from a variety of sources. The primary source of energy in the United States is coal at .

Renewable energy sources

Hydropower

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Existing hydroelectric plants and high head/low power water energy sites in the conterminous United States.[9]



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 Low head/low power water energy sites in the conterminous United States[10]


The Alaska Region contains the largest total potential with its slightly less than 90,000 MW of potential, which is approximately 30% of the total power potential of the United States. The Pacific Northwest Region has the second highest amount of total potential with slightly more than 76,000 MW of potential. Together these two regions contain over half (55%) of the U.S. power potential. From the perspective of the largest percentage of total power potential that has been developed, the Great Lakes Region (66%) and the Tennessee Region (37%) are particularly noteworthy with the next highest regions being the Lower Colorado (23%), Pacific Northwest (22%), South Atlantic-Gulf (21%), and California (17%).



Solar power

Biomass

Wind power

Geothermal Power

Policy framework, laws and regulations

Institutional set up in the energy sector

Activities of other donors

References:

  1. ↑ "United States". The World Factbook. CIA. 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-01-05 (area given in square kilometers).
  2. ↑ U.S. POPClock Projection". U.S. Census Bureau. Figure updated automatically.
  3. ↑ http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/rural-population-percent-of-total-population-wb-data.html
  4. ↑ United States". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  5. ↑ United States". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  6. ↑ http://www.energy.eu/stats/energy-electricity-production.html
  7. ↑ http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_installed_capacity.asp
  8. ↑ http://www.seia.org/galleries/pdf/SMI-YIR-2011-ES.pdf
  9. ↑ http://hydropower.inel.gov/resourceassessment/pdfs/03-11111.pdf (pg. 47)
  10. ↑ http://hydropower.inel.gov/resourceassessment/pdfs/03-11111.pdf (pg. 29)

 

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