Appendix E. Renewable Energy - Illustration - Statistical Data Included

Monthly Energy Review, July, 2001

Beginning with the January 2001 issue of the Monthly Energy Review (MER), previously uncounted portions of renewable energy data (including renewable nonutility generation and all nonelectric energy) were fully incorporated into the MER summaries in Sections 1 and 2. The addition of these data into the summaries raised the U.S. energy consumption total by 3 to 4 quadrillion Btu per year in recent years.

The tables presented in this appendix organize and summarize the renewable energy data and estimates that are now used in Sections 1 and 2 summary tables. Caution is warranted in using some of the monthly values; in particular, monthly data on Table E2 are not available from data collection systems but are estimated instead from daily rates of the annual data.