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<\/a>\r\nSee\r\n\r\nU.S. Electricity Use is Declining and Energy Efficiency May be a Significant Factor<\/a>\r\nby American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy,\r\nFebruary 25, 2014.\r\nSee also\r\n\r\nChanges in Electric Power Annual (EPA) 2012<\/a> by the U.S. Energy Information Association (eia),\r\nespecially\r\n\r\nTable 1.1. Total electric power industry summary statistics<\/a>,\r\nwhich says U.S. electric power net generation from all sources went down by 1.3% from 2011 to 2012.\r\nThe biggest declines were in Petroleum Coke (30.6%), Hydroelectric Pumped Storage (22.9%), Petroleum Liquids (16.7%), Coal (12.7%), and Nuclear (2.6%).\r\nThe biggest increases in generation were from Wind (17.2%),\r\nNatural Gas (20.9%), and Solar (138%).\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nLet’s get on with solar and wind power and leave those other energy\r\nsources back in the 20th century.\r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If we need less electricity and we already getting almost all new energy from solar power, why not shut down some more coal, oil, and nuclear plants, and not build any destructive, hazardous, and unnecessary natural gas pipelines? See U.S. Electricity Use is Declining and Energy Efficiency May be a Significant Factor by American Council […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,264,265,6124,104,6687,24,36],"tags":[7602,8704,7593,8754,8755,7603,785,8701,2498,8702,12,7,562,8737,6076,8714,6,8716],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-energy-conservation","category-energy-efficiency","category-natural-gas-2","category-nuclear","category-pipeline-2","category-solar","category-wind","tag-american-council-for-an-energy-efficient-economy","tag-economy","tag-eia","tag-energy-conservation","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-energy-information-association","tag-ferc","tag-georgia","tag-jon-wellinghoff","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-natural-gas","tag-nuclear","tag-pipeline","tag-solar","tag-valdosta","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-2dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\/update\/images\/Solar_Capacity_small.PNG\")
<\/a>\r\nThis month (April 2014) eia reported that\r\n\r\nU.S. solar power production has increased more than 400% in four years<\/a>,\r\njust as former FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff predicted.\r\nAt that rate of more than doubling every two years, solar will pass every\r\nother U.S. power source within a decade, just as Wellinghoff also predicted.\r\n