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| Annual Electricity Generation by Fuel Type Nebraska |
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Electricity generation increased less than one percent to 31,599 gigawatthours in 2006 from 31,392 gigawatthours in 2005. Most of Nebraska's electricity was generated by coal and nuclear power plants (65 percent and 28 percent, respectively). Hydroelectric plants, natural gas plants, renewable plants, and petroleum plants generated 2.8 percent, 2.4 percent, 1.0 percent, 0.06 percent, respectively. (Renewable excludes hydroelectric.) |
| Nebraska's Annual
Electricity Generation by Fuel Type 1976-2006 |
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| Year | Coal | Hydroelectric | Natural Gas |
Nuclear | Petroleum | Renewable | Annual Total |
| 1976 | 3,919 | 1,276 | 1,599 | 5,824 | 673 | 0 | 13,291 |
| 1977 | 4,493 | 1,221 | 1,255 | 7,452 | 446 | 0 | 14,867 |
| 1978 | 4,664 | 1,187 | 994 | 7,725 | 642 | 0 | 15,212 |
| 1979 | 6,027 | 1,246 | 1,088 | 8,658 | 398 | 0 | 17,417 |
| 1980 | 8,122 | 1,336 | 945 | 5,783 | 127 | 0 | 16,313 |
| 1981 | 8,482 | 1,197 | 351 | 5,988 | 47 | 0 | 16,065 |
| 1982 | 8,121 | 1,213 | 121 | 8,751 | 65 | 0 | 18,271 |
| 1983 | 9,471 | 1,346 | 114 | 6,084 | 40 | 0 | 17,055 |
| 1984 | 10,715 | 1,331 | 118 | 5,781 | 19 | 0 | 17,964 |
| 1985 | 10,232 | 1,441 | 103 | 4,135 | 25 | 0 | 15,936 |
| 1986 | 9,319 | 1,679 | 131 | 7,658 | 56 | 0 | 18,843 |
| 1987 | 10,152 | 1,568 | 135 | 8,589 | 47 | 0 | 20,491 |
| 1988 | 12,225 | 1,351 | 162 | 6,828 | 71 | 0 | 20,637 |
| 1989 | 11,581 | 1,158 | 225 | 8,075 | 56 | 0 | 21,095 |
| 1990 | 12,659 | 140 | 307 | 7,511 | 13 | 0 | 20,630 |
| 1991 | 13,561 | 1,046 | 300 | 8,049 | 12 | 0 | 22,968 |
| 1992 | 12,402 | 1,075 | 145 | 8,748 | 9 | 6 | 22,385 |
| 1993 | 14,740 | 1,002 | 153 | 6,805 | 19 | 6 | 22,725 |
| 1994 | 14,002 | 1,312 | 259 | 6,345 | 18 | 9 | 21,945 |
| 1995 | 16,080 | 1,426 | 245 | 7,485 | 27 | 16 | 25,279 |
| 1996 | 16,041 | 1,602 | 192 | 9,457 | 20 | 12 | 27,324 |
| 1997 | 17,209 | 1,672 | 206 | 9,269 | 31 | 1 | 28,388 |
| 1998 | 18,336 | 1,683 | 400 | 8,259 | 42 | 1 | 28,721 |
| 1999 | 17,794 | 1,719 | 348 | 10,091 | 29 | 0 | 29,981 |
| 2000 | 18,425 | 1,501 | 438 | 8,629 | 54 | 0 | 29,047 |
| 2001 | 20,194 | 1,124 | 340 | 8,726 | 25 | 3 | 30,412 |
| 2002 | 19,900 | 1,097 | 404 | 10,122 | 18 | 8 | 31,550 |
| 2003 | 20,908 | 980 | 369 | 7,997 | 48 | 65 | 30,368 |
| 2004 | 20,415 | 913 | 289 | 10,241 | 21 | 65 | 31,944 |
| 2005 | 20,773 | 871 | 795 | 8,802 | 30 | 121 | 31,392 |
| 2006 | 20,633 | 893 | 753 | 9,003 | 19 | 299 | 31,599 |
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Sources: Electric Power Annual. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC. Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE. Notes: Petroleum includes petroleum coke. Renewable energy sources include geothermal, wood, wind, waste, and solar but exclude hydroelectric. Totals may not equal the sum of the components due to independent rounding, and totals from one table to the next may not be equivalent. |
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