Definition: This entry is the annual electricity generated expressed in kilowatt-hours. The discrepancy between the amount of electricity generated and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is accounted for as loss in transmission and distribution.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
See also: Electricity - production mapRelated News
Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities
Los Angeles Times - 5/21/2013 7:11:30 PM
WASHINGTON – Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey. In the survey, released Tuesday by Yale and George Mason universities, 70% of American adults ...
US Energy Revolution Gathers Pace
MENAFN - 5/20/2013 12:50:18 AM
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The growing role of the U.S. in world energy markets ... to increase wind energy production in southern Tarfaya region, reported AFP. This project will be Africa's largest wind farm by 2014. The country plans to
Can poop save the world? Absolutely, says scientist David Walter-Toews
New York Daily News - 5/17/2013 6:54:46 PM
David Waltner-Toews, author of 'The Origin of Feces,' takes a lighthearted look at how excrement can be used for serious scientific purposes. If we see human and other animal excrement as part of a dynamic flux of energy, resources and life, it ...
Energy Journal: Obama Gives Gas Exports Green Light
Wall Street Journal - 5/20/2013 10:01:30 AM
Here’s your morning jolt of news, insight and analysis on the global energy business. Send us tips, suggestions and complaints: ben.winkley@wsj.com and james.herron@wsj.com Click here to receive this morning email newsletter U.S. OPTS TO JOIN ...
Grand Inga -- The World Bank's Latest Silver Bullet for Africa
The Huffington Post - 5/21/2013 7:04:20 PM
When World Bank President Jim Kim visits the Democratic Republic of Congo this week, he will find a country rich in natural resources but blighted by a lack of basic services. The world's poorest country has not only been ravaged by civil wars, but by ...
Halal Food Production on Rise in Western and Muslim Countries
Med India - 5/22/2013 11:39:20 AM
Food producers here have turned towards halal food, trying to fight back against the persistent economic crisis in the Balkans targeting rising demand from markets in Western and Muslim countries. At a recent three-day halal food fair in the ...
U.S. energy leaders more optimistic in 2013, survey finds
The Business Journal - 5/17/2013 3:48:39 PM
“Increased domestic production, particularly from shale assets, is having a profound impact on the global energy sector, introducing new sources to the energy matrix,” said John Kunasek, national sector leader for energy and natural ...
FX Energy, Inc. : FX Energy Reports Successful Production Test at Tuchola-3K Well
4-traders - 5/21/2013 8:51:43 PM
SALT LAKE CITY, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FX Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) reported that the Tuchola ... The Company's main exploration and production activity is focused on Poland's Permian Basin where the gas-bearing Rotliegend sandstone is a direct ...
Energy Dept. backs Texas LNG export plan
The Guardian - 5/17/2013 8:27:49 PM
Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department on Friday conditionally approved a Texas company's proposal to export liquefied natural gas, only the second such project allowed to move forward amid a production ... to countries that do not ...
VaasETT Global Energy Think-Tank Releases 3rd Edition of European Residential Energy Price Report
PR.com - 5/22/2013 7:00:10 AM
... and VAT -European customers miss out on savings opportunities -European households could have saved 15% on their energy bills by switching supplier in 2012 -Changes in wholesale markets are a poor indicator of changes to come in electricity retail ...
Revolution in energy world
DAWN Group - 5/19/2013 3:21:49 AM
“We are all part of a global market, and no country is truly energy independent ... Exports from Saudi Arabia were higher in 2012 than at any time since tight oil production began in 2009. And even though US oil imports fell to 8.5 million ...
6th Annual EE Global Kicks Off in D.C
Yahoo! News - 5/20/2013 2:04:53 PM
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world's premier energy efficiency conference returns to the heart of American policy today. Headlined by the Secretary of the U.S. Navy Ray Mabus, Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig, and Senator Mark Warner ...
A Stronger World Trade Organization Is Good for America
Businessweek - 5/20/2013 5:03:50 PM
Over the past few weeks, much has been made about the transatlantic trade pact President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, as well as the announcement that Japan will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the U.S. hopes to ...
CEA reduces gas-based power generation target
Economic Times - 5/22/2013 11:10:42 AM
The high current account deficit will persist as long as we live in a world of low growth — that hurts our exports — and easy global liquidity, which pumps up the oil import bill. Swift Dzire may have been launched as an offshoot to Swift ...
Canada on track to become energy ‘superproducer’
Hamilton Spectator - 5/22/2013 9:30:29 AM
In a speech to the Canada-U.K. Chamber of Commerce in London on July 14, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to Canada as the emerging "energy superpower" that his government "intends to build." The prime minister and Joe Oliver, minister of ...
