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Electricity consumption per person (per capita) is based upon data mined from US DOE Energy Information Administration/Electric Power Annual 2022 files [34] Population [35] data is from Demographics of the United States. Per capita consumption in 2022 is 12,809 kWh.
Consumption in 2023 was mostly for industry (33%) and transportation (30%), with use in homes (20%) and commercial buildings (17%) making up the remainder. [5] [6] The United States' portion of the electrical grid in North America had a nameplate capacity of 1,280 GW [7] and produced 4,029 TWh [8] in 2023, using 34% of primary energy to do so. [9]
Energy in this sector has the same basic end uses as the residential sector, in slightly different proportions. Space conditioning is again the single biggest consumption area, but it represents only about 30% of the energy use of commercial buildings. Lighting, at 25%, plays a much larger role than it does in the residential sector. [12]
In that year, the industrial sector consumed about 42.2% of the electricity, with the residential sector consuming nearly 26.8%, the commercial and public services sectors consuming about 21.1%, the transport sector consuming nearly 1.8%, and the other sectors (such as agriculture and fishing) consuming nearly 8.1%. [10]
According to eurostat as of 2021, households represented 27% of final energy consumption in the EU. The main use of energy by households was for heating their homes (64.4% of final energy consumption in the residential sector), with renewables accounting for more than a quarter (27%) of EU households space heating consumption.
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Some 41 TWh of net imports and 204 TWh of line losses resulted in total consumption of 4,067 TWh. [1] Texas produced the most with 526 TWh, twice as much as Florida or Pennsylvania. In 2022, natural gas was the largest source of electricity in the US and for 25 states. Wind power was the largest renewable source for 20 states. [2]