Report #:DOE/EIA-0383(2008)

Release date full report: June 2008

Next release date full report: February 2009

Table 16. Renewable Energy Generating Capacity and Generation

(gigawatts, unless otherwise noted)

2005 2006 2007

Electric Power Sector 1/

Net Summer Capacity
Conventional Hydropower 76.72 76.72 76.72
Geothermal 2/ 2.23 2.29 2.36
Municipal Waste 3/ 3.21 3.39 3.43
Wood and Other Biomass 4/, 5/ 1.96 2.01 2.18
Solar Thermal 0.40 0.40 0.53
Solar Photovoltaic 6/ 0.03 0.03 0.04
Wind 8.92 11.50 15.90
Offshore Wind 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 93.46 96.34 101.16

Generation (billion kilowatthours)

Conventional Hydropower 266.91 285.07 258.56
Geothermal 2/ 14.69 14.84 16.19
Biogenic Municipal Waste 7/ 12.70 13.46 14.50
Wood and Other Biomass 5/ 10.57 10.97 12.31
Dedicated Plants 8.60 9.06 10.34
Cofiring 1.97 1.91 1.97
Solar Thermal 0.54 0.49 0.92
Solar Photovoltaic 6/ 0.02 0.01 0.08
Wind 17.81 25.78 38.12
Offshore Wind 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 323.23 350.62 340.66

End-Use Generators 8/
Net Summer Capacity
Conventional Hydropower 9/ 0.71 0.70 0.70
Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00
Municipal Solid Waste 0.34 0.35 0.35
Biomass 4.72 4.64 4.66
Solar Photovoltaic 6/ 0.18 0.27 0.45
Wind 0.01 0.04 0.04
Total 5.96 6.00 6.20

Generation (billion kilowatthours)

Conventional Hydropower 9/ 3.46 3.24 3.24
 Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00
Municipal Solid Waste 1.95 2.06 2.82
Biomass 28.33 28.44 28.56
Solar Photovoltaic 6/ 0.28 0.43 0.72
Wind 0.02 0.06 0.06
Total 34.03 34.22 35.40

1/ Includes electricity-only and combined heat and power plants whose primary business is to
2/ Includes hydrothermal resources only (hot water and steam).
3/ Includes municipal solid waste, landfill gas, and municipal sewage sludge. Incremental gro
is included, although a portion of the municipal solid waste stream contains petroleum-derived p
4/ Facilities co-firing biomass and coal are classified as coal.
5/ Includes projections for energy crops after 2012.
6/ Does not include off-grid photovoltaics (PV). Based on annual PV shipments from 1989 thro
generation PV applications (i.e., off-grid power systems) were in service in 2005, plus an additio
non-grid-connected, specialized applications. See Energy Information Administration, Annual En
Table 10.8 (annual PV shipments, 1989-2005). The approach used to develop the estimate, bas
stock, including both grid-based and off-grid PV. It will overestimate the size of the stock, becau
and each year some of the PV units installed earlier will be retired from service or abandoned.
7/ Includes biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, and municipal sewage sludge. Increm
municipal waste is included. The Energy Information Administration estimates approximately 7
stream containing petroleum-derived plastics and other non-renewable sources. See Energy Inf
to Biogenic and Nono-Biogenic Energy, (Washington, DC, May 2007).
8/ Includes combined heat and power plants and electricity-only plants in the commercial and
commercial, and industrial sectors used primarily for own-use generation, but which may also se
9/ Represents own-use industrial hydroelectric power.
- - = Not applicable.
Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding. Data for 2005
Sources: 2005 and 2006 capacity: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-860, "A
Annual Energy Review 2006, DOE/EIA-0384(2006) (Washington, DC, June 2007). Projections: E
 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

76.73 76.73 76.73 77.02 77.02 77.15 77.15

2.40 2.42 2.50 2.63 2.73 2.78 2.83
3.44 3.44 3.99 3.99 3.99 3.99 3.99
2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.46
0.54 0.54 0.54 0.54 0.63 0.71 0.79
0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.11 0.12
20.21 20.61 25.61 27.26 27.78 28.50 29.03
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
105.57 106.01 111.63 113.72 114.43 115.43 116.37

267.99 282.86 289.47 296.28 296.30 297.19 297.20

16.82 17.03 17.52 18.61 19.60 20.00 20.39
14.53 14.54 18.85 18.85 18.85 18.85 18.85
12.84 13.11 22.98 21.92 26.89 31.87 37.32
10.88 11.03 11.06 11.64 11.62 11.62 13.52
1.95 2.08 11.92 10.28 15.27 20.26 23.80
1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.42 1.69 1.96
0.11 0.14 0.16 0.19 0.22 0.25 0.29
49.91 56.84 74.13 79.38 81.08 83.44 85.20
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
363.32 385.66 424.27 436.38 444.36 453.29 461.20

0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35
4.68 4.68 4.89 5.03 5.12 5.77 6.19
0.57 0.60 0.67 0.68 0.69 0.71 0.72
0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04
6.34 6.38 6.65 6.80 6.91 7.57 8.00

3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24

 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82
28.63 28.69 29.98 30.79 31.40 36.16 39.22
0.92 0.96 1.07 1.09 1.11 1.13 1.16
0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06
35.67 35.77 37.17 38.01 38.63 43.41 46.50

mary business is to sell electricity, or electricity and heat, to the public.

e. Incremental growth is assumed to be for landfill gas facilities. All municipal solid waste
petroleum-derived plastics and other non-renewable sources.

ents from 1989 through 2005, EIA estimates that as much as 192 megawatts of remote electricity
005, plus an additional 481 megawatts in communications, transportation, and assorted other
nistration, Annual Energy Review 2006, DOE/EIA-0384(2006) (Washington, DC, June 2007),
op the estimate, based on shipment data, provides an upper estimate of the size of the PV
e of the stock, because shipments include a substantial number of units that are exported,
ice or abandoned.
age sludge. Incremental growth is assumed to be for landfill gas facilities. Only biogenic
es approximately 7 billion kilowatthours of electricity were generated from a municipal waste
ces. See Energy Information Administration, Methodology for Allocating Municipal Solid Waste

he commercial and industrial sectors; and small on-site generating systems in the residential,
ut which may also sell some power to the grid.

ing. Data for 2005 and 2006 are model results and may differ slightly from official EIA data reports.
A), Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report" (preliminary). 2005 and 2006 generation: EIA,
07). Projections: EIA, AEO2008 National Energy Modeling System run aeo2008.d030208f.
 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

77.15 77.15 77.15 77.26 77.26 77.26 77.26

2.88 2.90 2.98 3.03 3.14 3.28 3.33
3.99 3.99 3.99 3.99 3.99 4.02 4.02
2.74 3.16 3.32 3.61 4.18 4.39 4.46
0.80 0.80 0.80 0.81 0.81 0.82 0.82
0.14 0.15 0.17 0.18 0.20 0.22 0.23
29.63 30.08 30.75 31.13 31.73 33.64 34.03
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
117.32 118.21 119.15 120.01 121.31 123.62 124.15

297.22 297.24 297.25 297.96 297.98 298.00 298.01

20.79 20.93 21.58 22.00 22.82 23.96 24.34
18.85 18.85 18.85 18.85 18.85 19.08 19.08
42.96 52.17 56.06 65.38 71.80 77.53 78.16
15.46 18.90 20.26 22.68 26.77 27.74 27.78
27.51 33.27 35.80 42.71 45.04 49.79 50.38
1.97 1.99 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.04 2.05
0.32 0.36 0.40 0.43 0.48 0.52 0.56
87.19 88.65 90.89 92.16 94.15 101.23 102.52
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
469.30 480.18 487.03 498.80 508.11 522.35 524.72

0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35
6.44 6.70 7.01 7.36 7.88 8.57 9.54
0.77 0.83 0.89 0.96 1.04 1.13 1.23
0.05 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.11
8.31 8.63 9.01 9.44 10.05 10.85 11.92

3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24

 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82
41.03 42.89 45.14 47.65 51.57 57.00 64.77
1.25 1.34 1.44 1.56 1.69 1.85 2.01
0.06 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.11 0.13 0.15
48.41 50.36 52.73 55.37 59.44 65.05 73.00

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 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028

77.26 77.26 77.26 77.26 77.26 77.26 77.26

3.43 3.56 3.66 3.77 3.86 3.95 4.03
4.03 4.03 4.06 4.06 4.06 4.06 4.06
4.54 4.59 4.70 4.84 4.99 5.08 5.12
0.83 0.83 0.83 0.84 0.84 0.85 0.85
0.25 0.27 0.29 0.30 0.32 0.34 0.36
34.33 35.27 36.18 37.18 37.56 37.82 39.41
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
124.67 125.81 126.98 128.26 128.91 129.37 131.09

298.03 298.05 298.07 298.09 298.11 298.13 298.16

25.14 26.17 26.99 27.84 28.57 29.29 29.87
19.20 19.20 19.43 19.46 19.46 19.47 19.47
78.57 80.52 81.43 83.30 83.41 83.78 84.96
28.64 29.06 29.87 30.98 32.19 32.85 33.26
49.93 51.45 51.55 52.32 51.22 50.93 51.70
2.07 2.08 2.10 2.11 2.13 2.14 2.15
0.61 0.65 0.70 0.74 0.78 0.83 0.87
103.58 106.71 109.70 113.14 114.46 115.33 120.72
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
527.20 533.38 538.41 544.68 546.93 548.97 556.20

0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35
10.65 11.05 11.59 12.21 12.56 12.65 12.73
1.34 1.47 1.61 1.77 1.94 2.12 2.33
0.12 0.14 0.15 0.17 0.19 0.20 0.22
13.17 13.70 14.41 15.20 15.73 16.02 16.33

3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24

 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.82
73.76 76.42 80.29 84.74 87.18 87.71 88.18
2.21 2.43 2.69 2.97 3.26 3.58 3.93
0.18 0.20 0.22 0.24 0.27 0.30 0.32
82.21 85.11 89.26 94.02 96.77 97.64 98.49
 2006-
2029 2030 2030

77.32 77.32 0.0%

4.08 4.18 2.5%
4.06 4.06 0.8%
5.20 5.58 4.3%
0.86 0.86 3.2%
0.37 0.39 11.2%
39.66 40.15 5.3%
0.00 0.00 --
131.55 132.54 1.3%

298.51 298.53 0.2%

30.27 31.05 3.1%
19.47 19.47 1.6%
84.88 82.55 8.8%
33.86 36.64 6.0%
51.02 45.91 14.2%
2.17 2.18 6.4%
0.92 0.96 19.6%
121.53 123.18 6.7%
0.00 0.00 --
557.74 557.91 2.0%

0.70 0.70 0.0%

0.00 0.00 --
0.35 0.35 0.0%
12.80 12.88 4.3%
2.55 2.80 10.2%
0.24 0.26 8.0%
16.65 17.00 4.4%

3.24 3.24 0.0%

 0.00 0.00 --
2.82 2.82 1.3%
88.60 89.06 4.9%
4.33 4.76 10.6%
0.35 0.38 8.3%
99.34 100.26 4.6%