I wrote a few months back how amazingly resilient natural gas inventories were in September despite the hurricane outages. The EIA just published an explanation in their electric power monthly data for the month. Electricity consumption fell more than 5% in September from 2007, sending natural gas demand for electricity down a staggering 15.5%! Demand for coal fell 3% and oil 19%, while hydroelectric generation (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Gore’
Electricity Use Falls a Huge 5% in September
Monday, December 15th, 2008Gore sets ambitious target & Texas wind gets a fresh boost
Friday, July 18th, 2008So, if you haven’t seen it yet — Gore gave an excited crowd some serious goals to chew on yesterday. He proposed our country take the climate and energy crisis more seriously — and transform our electric infrastructure from being fossil fuel dominated to being 100% carbon neutral in ten years! This can definitely make headlines, and is inspiring. Is such a lofty goal the right one for America?
I’ve been advocating climate neutrality on campuses for a long time and want us to move to wind and solar as quickly as possible – but 100% carbon-free in 10 years may be too (more…)