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| Keywords: US energy consumption by source semilog.png en US energy consumption by source from 1775-2010 using a semilog scale Exponential increases or decreases are straight lines on a semilog scale From 1795 to 1973 total energy increased by 2 97 /year From 1795 to 1845 wood increased by 2 99 /year From 1900 to 1945 wood decreased by 1 04 /year From 1975 to 1980 wood increased by 10 57 /year From 1982 to 2010 wood decreased by 0 83 /year From 1860 to 1910 coal increased by 6 61 /year and by 2 10 /year from 1960 to 2000 From 1949 to 1971 petroleum increased by 4 39 /year From 1895 to 1970 natural gas increased by 7 40 /year From 1950 to 1975 hydro increased by 4 50 /year Nuclear increased by 8 67 /year from 1980 to 1990 From 2002 to 2010 biofuel increased by 25 40 /year From 1980 to 1990 geothermal increased by 11 77 /year Wind increased by 32 69 /year from 2000 to 2010 and solar increased by 26 48 /year from 2006 to 2010 Most of the solar installed in the U S is distributed generation and is not included From 2006 to 2011 solar installed capacity including distributed generation increased by 35 8 /year and photovoltaics increased by 45 /year and by 85 in 2011 All data is from the U S EIAhttp //www eia gov/totalenergy/data/annual/index cfm and is expected to be updated annually using this same file name Chart uses 3412 Btu/kWh for hydro nuclear geothermal wind and solar 2012-08-31 own Delphi234 cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Energy statistics of the United States Energy use comparisons Energy use trends | ||||
