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Florida has grown dangerously over-reliant on a single energy source, natural gas. In fact, natural gas makes up 75% of the energy we use to power our schools, homes, businesses and cars.
The IEA estimates the energy sector (oil, natural gas, coal and bioenergy) to be responsible for about 40% of human methane emissions. [126] According to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, natural gas consumption grew by 15% between 2015 and 2019, compared to a 5% increase in oil and oil product consumption. [127]
Florida ranks forty-fifth in total energy consumption per capita, despite the heavy reliance on air conditioners and pool pumps. This includes coal, natural gas, petroleum, and retail electricity sales. [33] It is estimated that approximately 4 percent of energy in the state is generated through renewable resources. [34]
For a given unit of energy produced, the life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of natural gas are around 40 times the emissions of wind or nuclear energy but are much less than coal. Burning natural gas produces around half the emissions of coal when used to generate electricity and around two-thirds the emissions of coal when used to produce ...
National Clean Energy Week, Sept. 25-29, is a good time to reflect on the growing potential clean energy has to help strengthen communities throughout Florida and across the country.
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The largest sources for carbon pollution from energy were petroleum (46%), natural gas (35%) and coal (19%), [25] and of petroleum, motor gasoline (21%) and diesel (12%) were the largest contributors. As gas has been replacing coal, emissions from the two combined have declined from a peak in 2008, down 25% as of 2021.
An energy transition is a broad shift in technologies and behaviours that are needed to replace one source of energy with another. [14]: 202–203 A prime example is the change from a pre-industrial system relying on traditional biomass, wind, water and muscle power to an industrial system characterized by pervasive mechanization, steam power and the use of coal.