«Per
capita use of electricity is pretty much the same over several decades in California, even though there are more electrical appliances and gadgets around the house,» Kelly notes.
Not exact matches
Co-generation
of electricity and
use of industrial waste heat to reduce per
capita energy consumption.
A previous NREL report, «Land -
use Requirements and the Per -
capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 %
of all
electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 %
of the total area in the United States.
And California, he adds, «has held per -
capita electricity use flat for 30 years — saving 65 peak GW and more than $ 100 billion
of power - system investment — while per -
capita real income rose 79 percent.»
The success
of standards and other energy efficiency efforts is a significant factor in California's per
capita electricity use remaining flat over the last 40 years while the rest
of the country's
use continues to rise.
As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard
of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per
capita as there are different carbon intensities
of essentially the same energy:
electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or
used in coproduction to reduce net influx
of CO2.
«For both nations to achieve the same per
capita electricity use as the European Union, for instance, they would need the equivalent
of 7 billion tons
of coal each year, approximately the world's current
use,» he wrote in the company's 2010 annual report.
With lower
electricity prices and triple the heating degree days, Texans
use twice the
electricity per
capita of Californians; 37 percent
of Texans»
electricity is generated from coal compared to 15 percent in California.
EIA expects household per
capita disposable income to grow by an average
of 3.2 % per year as more people have access to
electricity and the ownership
of electricity -
using appliances and equipment (particularly air conditioners) grows.
The UC Irvine researchers
used load profiles
used were extrapolated from CAISO load data, assuming the historical trend
of a steady per
capita electricity use, and adjusted for population growth to roughly 44.1 million people in 2030 and 49.1 million in 2050.
Per
capita electricity use in India is among the lowest
of the emerging economies.
However, big cities offer opportunities for co-generation
of electricity and
use of industrial waste heat to reduce per
capita energy consumption.
However, stabilizing per
capita electricity use will not be enough to meet the carbon reduction goals
of AB 32.