President's Energy Budget Invests in Innovation, Clean Energy, and National Security Priorities
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today detailed President
Barack Obama's $28.4 billion Fiscal Year 2011 budget request
for DOE.
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Estimated energy demand is charted to grow by almost 50% in the next 20 years.
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In 2007, the average monthly residential electricity consumption was 936 kWh. (Source: EIA)
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Appliances account for roughly 65% of electricity consumption in the average American household (2001), with refrigerators and lighting making up the largest categories. (Source: EIA)
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Today’s challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while meeting the country’s steadily rising demand for electricity make it essential for legislatures and public utility commissions to shift their focus toward mechanisms that make demand reduction as profitable for utilities as increasing supply. (Source: Institute for 21st Century Energy)
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Electricity generation accounts for about 40% of total U.S. energy consumption. (Source: Institute for 21st Century Energy)
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