U.S. Electrical Energy Consumption

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

The United States will also add 22 million fossil-fuel burning mini-power plants in new buildings over this period. The new buildings we construct each year not only consume electricity produced at a central power plant, but also directly burn oil, natural gas and/or propane in boilers, furnaces and hot water heaters. In fact, 58% of the site-use energy consumed in a building is burned at the site.

The Building Sector, as the major global greenhouse gas emitting sector, is poised to fuel the world's rush toward climate change on the backs of coal. The U.S. alone is projected to need 1,300 to 1,900 new power plants over the next 20 years (about one plant every week)...

...with 76% of all plant generated electricity used just to operate buildings.

U.S. WILL ADD 22 MILLION MINI-PLANTS OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS