USA:

U.S. Geothermal Energy Electricity Generation Up 5% (Windpower Engineering)

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)’s latest “Electric Power Monthly” report, with data through the end of 2014, net electrical generation from non-hydro renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, solar, wind) increased by 10.9% over the previous year.

The contribution to net electrical generation by just solar more than doubled (102.8%), while wind grew by 8.3%, biomass by 5.7%, and geothermal by 5.4%.

In 2014 geothermal energy generated 16,628 Thousand Megawatthours up from 15,775 Thousand Megawatthours in 2013. EIA reports that geothermal accounted for 0.41% of net U.S. electrical generation in 2014.

Of the 1,443 Thousand Megawatthours generated by geothermal energy in December 2014, western U.S. states contributed:

• California - 1,077
• Nevada - 273
• Utah - 48
• Hawaii - 20
• Oregon - 19
• Idaho - 4

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