Petroleum is the primary source of energy in the United States, with a consumption of 35.35 quadrillion British thermal units in 2024. Closely following, the U.S. had 34.2 quadrillion British thermal units of energy derived from natural gas. Energy consumption by sector in the United States Petroleum is predominantly utilized as a fuel in the transportation sector, which is also the second-largest consumer of energy in the U.S. with almost 30 percent of the country’s total energy consumption in 2024. This figure is topped only by the energy-guzzling industrial sector, a major consumer of fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas. Renewable energy in the United States Despite the prevalence of fossil fuels in the U.S. energy mix, the use of renewable energy consumption has grown immensely in the last decades to approximately 6.7 exajoules in 2024. Most of the renewable energy produced in the U.S. is derived from biomass, hydro, and wind sources. In 2024, renewable electricity accounted for approximately 24 percent of the nation’s total electricity generation.

Industrial activities are the greatest energy end-user sector in the United States, reaching a consumption of some 31 quadrillion British thermal units in 2024, followed by the transportation sector. The U.S. is the second-largest energy consumer in the world, after China. Energy source in the United States Consumption of fossil fuels still accounts for the majority of U.S. primary energy consumption. The transportation and industrial sectors are the sectors with the largest fossil fuel consumption in the country, the former relying on oil-based motor fuels. Electricity generation in the United States Although around 60 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is derived from natural gas and coal, the use of renewable sources is becoming more common in electricity production, with the largest increase in wind and solar power. These two clean energy resources are projected to generate as much power as natural gas by 2030.

United States Total Energy Consumption data was reported at 94.556 BTU qn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 93.719 BTU qn for 2023. United States Total Energy Consumption data is updated yearly, averaging 95.575 BTU qn from Dec 1980 (Median) to 2024, with 45 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 98.965 BTU qn in 2007 and a record low of 70.489 BTU qn in 1983. United States Total Energy Consumption data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EIA.IES: Energy Production and Consumption: Annual.

This extensive dataset encompasses a wide array of critical indicators related to the United States' energy landscape and economic performance. It includes data on crude oil production, natural gas production, coal production, total energy production, liquid fuels consumption, natural gas consumption, coal consumption, electricity consumption, renewables consumption, and total energy consumption, measured in quadrillion British thermal units (quadrillion Btu). Additionally, the dataset provides information on the pricing of crude oil, natural gas, and coal.

Economic metrics such as Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP), RGDP percent change Year-Over-Year (YOY), GDP Implicit Price Deflator, GDP IPD percent change YOY, Real Disposable Personal Income (RDPI), RDPI percent change YOY, Manufacturing Production Index (MPI), and MPI percent change YOY are also included.

United States Electricity Consumption data was reported at 10.522 kWh/Day bn in Mar 2026. This records a decrease from the previous number of 11.825 kWh/Day bn for Feb 2026. United States Electricity Consumption data is updated monthly, averaging 11.740 kWh/Day bn from Jan 1991 (Median) to Mar 2026, with 423 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.535 kWh/Day bn in Jul 2025 and a record low of 7.190 kWh/Day bn in Apr 1991. United States Electricity Consumption data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RB: Electricity Supply and Consumption. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

In 2024, consumption of primary energy per capita in the United States amounted to 277 million British thermal units. Per capita consumption of energy has increased since the 1950s in the United States. However, in the advent of vehicle and electricity efficiency standards, this figure has decreased in recent years.

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United States US: Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption: % of Total data was reported at 82.776 % in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 82.935 % for 2014. United States US: Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption: % of Total data is updated yearly, averaging 87.236 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2015, with 56 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 95.982 % in 1967 and a record low of 82.776 % in 2015. United States US: Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption: % of Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Energy Production and Consumption. Fossil fuel comprises coal, oil, petroleum, and natural gas products.; ; IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/; Weighted average; Restricted use: Please contact the International Energy Agency for third-party use of these data.

This dataset summarizes information about energy consumption for the United States of America and the world from 1965 to 2012. The data for the USA is broken down into information about type of fuel consumed, and can be compared to the total energy consumed by the world. The data comes from two sources, the first source is the EIA and the second source is [BP](http://www.bp.com/en/global/corpora…

Dataset Source

The raw dataset, U.S. renewable energy (RE) consumption historical data from January 1973 to December 2025, was obtained from the official website of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): https://www.eia.gov

This is a publicly available U.S. government data source.

Data Preparation

The raw dataset consisted of multiple Excel (.xlsx) files representing renewable energy consumption across the following sectors:

Industrial

Residential

Commercial

Transportation

Electric Power

Renewable energy sources included conventional hydroelectric, hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, wind, wood and waste energy, biomass losses and co-products, ethanol fuel (excluding denaturant), biodiesel, renewable diesel fuels, and other biofuels.

The dataset underwent the following preprocessing steps:

1) Biomass Aggregation:

In addition to the existing columns (conventional hydroelectric, hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, and wind energy), a new column titled Biomass Energy was created.

This column represents the sum of:

Wood energy

Waste energy

Biomass losses and co-products

Ethanol fuel (excluding denaturant)

Biodiesel, renewable diesel fuels, and other biofuels

Values labeled as “Not Available” or “No Data Reported” were replaced with 0 to enable the calculation of total renewable energy consumption.

2) Data Reshaping and Consolidation:

All Excel files were transformed from wide format to long format.

The datasets were then vertically appended using SQL queries in Google BigQuery, resulting in a single consolidated table covering renewable energy consumption across all sectors from January 1973 to December 2025.

3) Data Cleaning and Structuring:

The column “Month” (e.g., “1973 January”) was renamed to “date” and converted to a standardized date format (YYYY-MM-DD) to ensure time-series consistency. Since the date was reported at a monthly level, the day component was standardized to the first day of each month, for example, original format: 1973 January; converted format: 1973-01-01

A time-window column was created

Type casting was applied to string-formatted fields

Duplicate records were removed

Final Dataset Structure

The final dataset is provided as a single cleaned and analysis-ready CSV file, covering renewable energy consumption across all major U.S. sectors from January 1973 to December 2025.

Interactive Tableau Public Story

The final dataset was used to create an interactive Tableau Public Story. View the Tableau Story: https://public.tableau.com/views/RenewableEnergyConsumptionUSA1973-2025/RenewableEnergyConsumption_USA_1973_2025?:language=en-US&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

Notebook (in R Language)

A notebook (in R Language) was created here, in Kaggle. View the Kaggle Notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/code/salehireza2083/u-s-renewable-energy-trends-jan-1973-dec-2025

SQL Queries in Google BigQuery

View the GitHub SQL Queries: https://github.com/reza-salehi125/USA_renewable_energy_consumption_1973_2025

Petroleum is the most used fuel source in the United States, with a consumption level of 35.35 quadrillion British thermal units in 2024. Natural gas is the second-most common fuel source, with consumption levels rising closer to that of petroleum over recent years. Petroleum use post-financial crisis Petroleum in the United States is primarily used for fueling the transportation sector, generating heat and electricity, as well as in the production of plastics. U.S. consumption of petroleum was at its highest before the 2008 global financial crisis, when the price of crude oil rose dramatically. Petroleum consumption began to increase again in 2013, before dropping significantly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of natural gas While petroleum consumption has been lower in the last decade than in the early 2000s, the use of natural gas has risen significantly. Natural gas consumption in the United States has seen record highs in recent years, in part due to lower costs and its growing popularity. The U.S. currently produces more natural gas than any country in the world, followed by Russia.

United States US: Renewable Energy Consumption: % of Total Final Energy Consumption data was reported at 8.717 % in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 8.754 % for 2014. United States US: Renewable Energy Consumption: % of Total Final Energy Consumption data is updated yearly, averaging 5.454 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2015, with 26 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.754 % in 2014 and a record low of 4.089 % in 1994. United States US: Renewable Energy Consumption: % of Total Final Energy Consumption data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: Energy Production and Consumption. Renewable energy consumption is the share of renewables energy in total final energy consumption.; ; World Bank, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) database from the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework led jointly by the World Bank, International Energy Agency, and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program.; Weighted Average;

History of USA Energy Consumption provided by US government

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Industrial Energy End Use in the U.S

Facility-Level Combustion Energy Data

By US Open Data Portal, data.gov [source]

About this dataset

This dataset contains in-depth facility-level information on industrial combustion energy use in the United States. It provides an essential resource for understanding consumption patterns across different sectors and industries, as reported by large emitters (>25,000 metric tons CO2e per year) under the U.S. EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). Our records have been calculated using EPA default emissions factors and contain data on fuel type, location (latitude, longitude), combustion unit type and energy end use classified by manufacturing NAICS code. Additionally, our dataset reveals valuable insight into the thermal spectrum of low-temperature energy use from a 2010 Energy Information Administration Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS). This information is critical to assessing industrial trends of energy consumption in manufacturing sectors and can serve as an informative baseline for efficient or renewable alternative plans of operation at these facilities. With this dataset you're just a few clicks away from analyzing research questions related to consumption levels across industries, waste issues associated with unconstrained fossil fuel burning practices and their environmental impacts

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How to use the dataset

This dataset provides detailed information on industrial combustion energy end use in the United States. Knowing how certain industries use fuel can be valuable for those interested in reducing energy consumption and its associated environmental impacts.

• To make the most out of this dataset, users should first become familiar with what's included by looking at the columns and their respective definitions. After becoming familiar with the data, users should start to explore areas of interest such as Fuel Type, Report Year, Primary NAICS Code, Emissions Indicators etc. The more granular and specific details you can focus on will help build a stronger analysis from which to draw conclusions from your data set.

• Next steps could include filtering your data set down by region or end user type (such as direct related processes or indirect support activities). Segmenting your data set further can allow you to identify trends between fuel type used in different regions or compare emissions indicators between different processes within manufacturing industries etc. By taking a closer look through this lens you may be able to find valuable insights that can help inform better decision making when it comes to reducing energy consumption throughout industry in both public and private sectors alike.

• if exploring specific trends within industry is not something that’s of particular interest to you but rather understanding general patterns among large emitters across regions then it may be beneficial for your analysis to group like-data together and take averages over larger samples which better represent total production across an area or multiple states (timeline varies depending on needs). This approach could open up new possibilities for exploring correlations between economic productivity metrics compared against industrial energy use over periods of time which could lead towards more formal investigations about where efforts are being made towards improved resource efficiency standards among certain industries/areas of production compared against other more inefficient sectors/regionsetc — all from what's already present here!

By leveraging the information provided within this dataset users have access to many opportunities for finding all sorts of interesting yet practical insights which can have important impacts far beyond understanding just another singular statistic alone; so happy digging!

Research Ideas

• Analyzing the trends in combustion energy uses by region across different industries.
• Predicting the potential of transitioning to clean and renewable sources of energy considering the current end-uses and their magnitude based on this data.
• Creating an interactive web map application to visualize multiple industrial sites, including their energy sources and emissions data from this dataset combined with other sources (EPA’s GHGRP, MECS survey, etc)

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

**License: [CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication](https://creativecommons...

United States Primary Energy Consumption per Capita data was reported at 77,027.836 kWh/Person in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 78,347.914 kWh/Person for 2022. United States Primary Energy Consumption per Capita data is updated yearly, averaging 89,404.797 kWh/Person from Dec 1965 (Median) to 2023, with 59 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 98,110.680 kWh/Person in 1973 and a record low of 73,294.336 kWh/Person in 2020. United States Primary Energy Consumption per Capita data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Our World in Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OWID.ESG: Environmental: CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Annual.

The average for 2023 based on 24 countries was 4.858 quadrillion Btu. The highest value was in the USA: 93.691 quadrillion Btu and the lowest value was in Montserrat: 0 quadrillion Btu. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Alaska's staggering energy consumption of over one billion British thermal units per capita in 2023 highlights the vast disparities in energy use across the United States. This figure, more than triple the national average of 277.8 million British thermal units, underscores the unique energy demand of America's largest state. Louisiana and North Dakota followed closely behind, with consumption rates of 908 and 892 million British thermal units per capita, respectively. Factors influencing regional U.S. energy consumption The extreme per person energy consumption in Alaska can be attributed to its cold climate and energy-intensive industries. By comparison, New York, California, and Florida were among the states with the lowest per person energy consumption in the country because of the high energy efficiency, mild temperatures, and economies based on services and low energy-intensive industries. The overall energy consumption in the U.S. states was highest in the most populated areas –Texas, California, and Florida- and lower in sparsely populated ones, such as Alaska and Wyoming. Future energy trends in the U.S. While individual states show significant variations, the U.S. country consumed approximately 94.2 quadrillion British thermal units of primary energy in 2024, a slight increase from the previous year. Oil remained the dominant energy source, followed by natural gas and renewable energies. The country's energy market has been evolving, with increased investments in renewable energy, reflecting a growing shift towards more sustainable energy sources.

Renewable energy consumption (% of total final energy consumption) in United States was reported at 10.9 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - Renewable energy consumption (% of total final energy consumption) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on February of 2026.