Author: US Energy Information Administration

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In 2023, the United States produced 578 million short tons (MMst) of coal, or less than half of the amount produced in 2008 when U.S. coal production peaked, according to our most recent Annual Coal Report. ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In the United States, cumulative utility-scale battery storage capacity exceeded 26 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to our January 2025 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Generators added 10.4 GW of new battery storage capacity in ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The number of rigs deployed to drill for natural gas in the United States decreased over the last two years. U.S. natural gas-directed rigs decreased 32% (50 rigs) between December 2022 and December 2024. ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Electricity generators plan to retire 12.3 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2025, a 65% increase in retirements compared with 2024. Last year, 7.5 GW was retired from the U.S. power grid, the least generation ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!   We expect 63 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid in 2025 in our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report. This amount represents an almost 30% ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Gross U.S. coal exports in June 2024 totaled 10 million short tons, the most in a month since October 2018, data from our Short-Term Energy Outlook data browser show. Annual average U.S. coal exports were 9.0 million ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect that U.S. renewable capacity additions—especially solar—will continue to drive the growth of U.S. power generation over the next two years. We expect U.S. utilities and independent power ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! We expect increases in the Henry Hub natural gas price in 2025 and 2026 as demand for natural gas grows faster than supply, driven mainly by more demand from U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In our January Short-Term Energy Outlook, we now forecast U.S. retail gasoline prices through the end of 2026. We estimate U.S. average gasoline prices in 2025 will decrease by 11 cents per gallon (gal), or ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! We forecast benchmark Brent crude oil prices will fall from an average of $81 per barrel (b) in 2024 to $74/b in 2025 and $66/b in 2026, as strong global growth in production of petroleum and other ... [continued]