I've had a side project simmering trying to substantiate my observations and suspicions in eSolar Sierra SunTower offline — Again with actual
electricity production data.
However if you wish to make some such point, then better define what you are doing, get the Australian
electricity production data from AEMO (half hourly data for all power stations is available), get solar irradiance data from the BOM and go for it.
Not exact matches
Key
Electricity Trends 2017 OECD net electricity production grew by 0.8 % compared to 2016 according to IEA monthly data 12
Electricity Trends 2017 OECD net
electricity production grew by 0.8 % compared to 2016 according to IEA monthly data 12
electricity production grew by 0.8 % compared to 2016 according to IEA monthly
data 12 April 2018
According to the most recent
data available, in 2014, highway and aviation congestion cost the U.S. economy about $ 160 billion in lost time, productivity, and fuel and the transportation sector produced 26 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (second to
electricity production).
The team also compared these results with regional economic and demographic
data, as well as other information that provided clues to the sources — for example,
data on human populations, livestock populations,
electricity production from power plants, oil and natural gas
production,
production from oil refineries, rice
production, and coal
production.
Population
data from U.S. Bureau of the Census, State & County Quickfacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 31 August 2007; Anders Rydaker, «Biomass for
Electricity & Heat
Production,» presentation at Bioenergy North America 2007, Chicago, IL, 16 April 2007.
OECD
electricity generation from wind and solar grew 16 % in 2015 Latest IEA
data reports also highlight US - led gains in oil and gas
production 5 April 2016
This follows
data released last week showing that renewable energy accounted for 19.9 percent of
electricity production in the country in 2011, growing 16.4 percent over 2010.
We assume a solar panel life span of 30 years, a decline in panel
production of 0.5 % per year, inverter replacements at years 10 and 20, and retail
electricity rates increasing 2.18 % per year (National average utility bill increase of 2.18 % based on EIA
data for the last reported 20 years, nationally (1997 - 2017).
1) Primary Energy Overview [PDF / XLS] 2) Primary energy
production by source [PDF / XLS] 3) Primary energy consumption by source [PDF / XLS] 4) Energy consumption by sector [PDF] 5) Petroleum
Data [PDF] 6) Natural Gas
Data [PDF] 7) Coal
Data [PDF] 8) Nuclear Energy
Data [PDF] 9) Renewable Energy
Data [PDF] 10)
Electricity generation and Consumption [PDF] 11) Energy Prices [PDF] 12) World Crude oil
production, consumption and stocks [PDF] 13) Crude oil and natural gas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [PDF]
Using the latest
data about how
electricity is generated around the country, as well as crunching the numbers on the energy and materials required to build the batteries that power electric cars, UCS analysts examined all global warming emissions created during an electric car's lifetime — from its
production and years of driving to its eventual retirement.
The Institute for Energy Research decided to calculate the federal subsidies and support per unit of
electricity production from the information provided in EIA's report and the generation
data in its Monthly Energy Review.
In addition to using ERCOT
data instead of EIA, the «headline» «number was nameplate capacity, not total
electricity production.
U.S. energy - related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons in 2020 as coal's share of
electricity production continues a steady descent over the next two decades, according to new government
data.
By 2005, despite a 7 percent growth in
electricity production,
data centers» power consumption grew to 1.4 percent of the total, the equivalent of seven medium - sized (750 MW) power plants.
But obviously this is not the case as you can clearly see based on the fact that greenhouse emissions from other sources are many orders of magnitudes higher than from PV, even if you take old
data and produce PV in large number on old inefficient equipment and do ignore the simple fact that PV
electricity production replaces fossil fuel based
electricity production!
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil
Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of
electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy
Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.
Friends of the Earth offered a quite nuanced view to the Energy and Climate Select Committe: «available
data suggests that the carbon footprint of shale gas is smaller than that of coal used in
electricity production, although it is higher than that of conventional gas.