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Electricity

Electricity Sources and Uses in San Diego County

The chart shows Electricity sources and uses in SD County. The generation sources are Natural Gas 87.1%; Nuclear 10.5%, Wind around 1%; Hydro around 1%; Solar less than 1% and digester/landfill gasses negligible. Uses are: Commercial 40%; Residential 34%; Transportation 9%; Industrial 8%; Agriculture 1%; Street Lighting 1% and Mining 1%. Additional Chart components are Storage between 2 and 5 % and Transmission Losses of 7%.

In 2009 San Diego County used 23,000 Gigawatt-hours in Electrical Energy of the 100,000 GWh of Total Energy Used.

Notes:

The sources are those located in San Diego county only. Some electricity is imported from other regions and some of it is generated by coal-fired powerplants.

Comments or contributions: E-mail Marek.