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Household Energy Use

HOUSEHOLD ENERGYUSE HOW WE USE ENERGY 31% industrial 22% transportation. 28% residential 19% commercial ENERGY CONSUMPTION PER HOME COST OF HOME ENERGY $2,595 per house NUMBER $2,037 OF $1,981 per house per house HOMES RISING $1,580 ENERGY per house USE PER HOME IS FALLING national average $2,024 TOTAL PRIMARY ENERGY USED TO PROVIDE THE ANNUAL ELECTRICITY FOR AN AVERAGE U.S. HOUSEHOLD... 128 E BILLION Btu 37% ELECTRICITY USE 40.4 QUADRILLION Btu 117 MILLION HOMES The average passenger car/vehicle vn the US uses Did You Know? spout 64 mihon Bru per year. So the annual energy use from 2 vehicles is roughly the some as WHAT WE USE ENERGY ON IN OUR HOMES to provide electricity for one household 1978 2005 the rotol primary energy needed Air Appliances & Water Space Heating Electronics Heating Conditioning 66% 3% 17% 14% 41% 31%) 20% 8% THE IMPACT OF LARGER HOMES homes have three or more televisions. NEWSFLASH Homes built since 1990 are on average 27% larger than homes built in earlier decades. This trend is important since energy use increases with the size of the home. Over 50 million U.S. Luckily, this increase in home size has also come with more efficiency. Larger, more modern, homes tend to have better insulation, more efficient windows etc. and this moderates the effects of increasing home size. average square footage 2,500 SqFt 2,200 SqFt 1,900 SqFt 1,600 SqFt 2000's 1990's 1980's 1970's USE OF ENERGY EFFICIENT WINDOWws In 2009, 58 percent of housing units had energy efficient, multi-pane windows, up from 36% in the 1993 survey. 1993 = 22% 2009 = 58% CALCULATE YOUR HOUSEHOLD ENERGY USE NEWSFLASH If you want to calculate the total amount of energy you use you can take the gallons of gasoline consumed by your car, the amount of natural gas and other fuels that heat your home, and the kilowatthours of electricity to run your lights and appliances and convert them all to Btu equivalents, using the conversion rates below. Then you can add up the different pieces to get a total amount in common units. uses the British thermal unit (Bru) as Rs common The U.S. Energy Information Administration energy unk. DIESEL ONSOLING ELEC ANTURAL CARICITA 1 KILOWATTHOUR 1 GALLON = 139,000 Btu 1 CUBIC FOOT (kWh) = 3,412 Btu (ft3)= 1,025 Btu 1 GALLON = 139,000 Btu 1 GALLON = 1 CUBIC FOOT 124,000 Btu (ft3)= 0.01 therms Green BusinessWatch.org Data Source: U.S. EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Design by www.jessicadraws.com west south midwest northeast

Household Energy Use

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Understanding our household energy use can help us save money and consider what areas we need to look at if we want to reduce consumption and cut energy costs.

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