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Electricity growth and renewable electricity growth
Total renewable electricity production in 2007 hit an all-time high of 105.3 million megawatt-hours. The growth over 2006 was impressive; almost 10 million megawatt-hours. (2008 numbers aren't yet complete, but it looks like they will be about 10 million megawatt-hours than 2007). Yet the average annual growth of electricity demand over the previous 10 years was 66 million megawatt hours. - Read More
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Topics : Renewable Energy
Global electricity market
The world consumes about 15 TW of power; this translates to a biz worth $6 trillion a year (how??); by 2030, power consumption is likely to be about 30 TW - Economist data, 2008
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Topics : Finance
Fossil fuel consumption data
World consumes abt 1000 billion gal of transport fuel PY. Sale price of US$ 3 per gal, this $3 tr! Global elec consumption about 15,400 TWh PY in 2006 (BP, IEA). (US:3600 TWh/y ? 2005). $0.1 per kWh, total elec revenues is abt $1.5 tr. Natural gas global demand is abt 3 tcm in 2008 (2.8 tcm in 2005, est. 3.2 tcn in 2010 ? IEA). Natural gas prices are about 400 per 1000 cm, mkt sales of $1.28 tr. World coal production about 5000 million T per year.A price of US$ 100 per T, US$ 500 billion.
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Topics : Oil Natural Gas Oil and Gas
Electric cars could shift the load curve
...millions of plug-in hybrid / electric cars, each of which might use elec from the grid. If millions of the cars did sell, they would mostly recharge at night, which would change the shape of the ?load curve??instead of households consuming peak amounts of power during the day and far less at night, consumption would be at a more constant level across 24-hour period, which favors technologies such as nuclear that operate around the clock with low marginal costs.
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Topics : Automobiles