US renewable energy usage highest since Great Depression, says EIA
In Washington, the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (www.eia.gov) latest “Today in Energy” brief looks at the growth of renewables as a share of U.S. energy consumption, and found that renewable energy accounted for 9.8% of total domestic energy consumption in 2014.
“This marks the highest renewable energy share since the 1930s,” the agency noted, “when wood was a much larger contributor to domestic energy supply…Renewable energy use grew an average of 5% per year over 2001-2014 from its most recent low in 2001. The increase over the past 14 years was in part because of growing use of wind, solar, and biofuels.”
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