Renewable Energy Trends in Consumption and Electricity, 2006

摘要

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports detailed historical data on renewable energy consumption and electricity annually in its report, the Renewable Energy Annual. This report, Renewable Energy Trends in Consumption and Electricity, 2006, provides an overview and tables with historical data spanning as far back as 1989 through 2006, including revisions. These tables correspond to similar tables to be presented in chapter 1 of the Renewable Energy Annual 2006 and are numbered accordingly. Also following the highlights section which provides an overview, the report contains four Issue in Focus sections designed to provide an in-depth look at some of the major issues affecting renewable energy in the near term. The topics are: Wind Energy Developments; Central Station Solar Thermal Electricity: Concentrating Solar Power Comes of Age; Biodiesel in the Energy Supply; and Wave and Tidal Energy. The renewable energy resources in the report include: biomass (wood, wood waste, biogenic municipal solid waste (MSW), landfill gas, ethanol, biodiesel and other biomass); geothermal; wind; solar (solar thermal and photovoltaic); and conventional hydropower. Hydroelectric pumped storage is excluded, because it is usually based on non-renewable energy sources.