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About 2/3 of California's home heating is supplied by natural gas, and most new homes are constructed with both natural gas and electric heating. [104] The California Building Standards Code has targeted residential energy efficiency since 1978; [105] Part 11 of the code is the California Green Building Standards Code.
In 2021, hydroelectric power produced 31.5% of the total renewable electricity, and 6.3% of the total U.S. electricity. [2] According to the International Hydropower Association, the United States is the 3rd largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world in 2021 after Brazil and China. [3] Total installed capacity for 2020 was 102.8 GW.
In California, the clean energy economy provides 16% of clean energy jobs within the United States, which includes the 26.5% employment rates for renewable energy occupations. [38] California had employed the most people during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2020), with a total of 485,000 new employees that is 3% of California's work force. [39]
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Hydropower is expected to remain at around 14% of California's electricity generation or 29.95 million megawatt hours in 2024, the EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook report showed.
The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a metric that attempts to compare the costs of different methods of electricity generation consistently. Though LCOE is often presented as the minimum constant price at which electricity must be sold to break even over the lifetime of the project, such a cost analysis requires assumptions about the value of various non-financial costs (environmental ...
Homeownership in the U.S. is increasingly coming with unaffordable monthly costs, especially among middle-class homebuyers, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data.
Overall, hydroelectric power can be far less expensive than electricity generated from fossil fuels or nuclear energy, and areas with abundant hydroelectric power attract industry. In Canada it's estimated there are 160,000 megawatts of undeveloped hydro potential. [47]