Nebraska's Renewable Energy Consumption in 2005

In 2005, 3.6 percent of Nebraska's energy consumption was met using renewable sources.  Nebraska consumed energy from five categories of renewable sources:

  Biomass (wood, wood waste, municipal solid waste, landfill gas, ethanol, and other biomass)
  Conventional hydroelectric power
  Geothermal energy
  Solar energy (solar thermal and photovoltaic)
  Wind energy

The state consumed 654.90 trillion British thermal units (Btu) of energy including 23.61 trillion Btu from renewable energy sources.  Shown in the table below, Nebraska consumed 443,500 cords of wood, 52,794,000 gallons of ethanol, 871 gigawatthours of conventional hydroelectric power, 0.59 trillion Btu of geothermal energy, 97 gigawatthours of wind energy, and 0.02 trillion Btu of solar energy.

In 2005, conventional hydroelectric power was more than a third (37 percent) of renewable energy consumption in Nebraska.

Renewable energy consumption was 3.6 percent of total energy consumption.
Renewable energy consumption was 2.3 percent of total energy consumption (not counting hydroelectric).
Renewable energy consumption was 1.6 percent of total energy consumption (not counting ethanol and hydroelectric).

Sources:  State Energy Data Report.  Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC.  Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

Note: 
¹ Consumption is listed in Btu to enable totaling all the categories of energy.

This table was updated on June 20, 2008.  Typically, there are two years between updates.

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