Energy Supply Drivers

Paul Falkowski
Director, Rutgers Energy Institute
www.rei.rutgers.edu
Global CO2 Emissions
 Who Is Using What ?
Size of the Country Shows Relative Proportion of
Indicated Parameter

Fuel
Population Use

Fuel Fuel Use

Imports Increase
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
 Energy Contributes to Quality of
Life
GDP vs. Energy Consumption
100,000
Qatar
U.S.
UK
(US$ / person / yr)

Mexico Bahrain
10,000
GDP per Capita

South Africa
Peru
Congo
Bulgaria

1,000 China
Eritrea
India

100
100 1,000 10,000 100,000

Annual Energy Consumption per Capita

(kgoe / person / yr)

Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
of the United Nations Secretariat: IEA Statistics Division
 U.S. Electric Capacity & Generation
2007 Nameplate 2007 Net Generation
Capacity (MWe) (000 MW-hrs)

Coal 336,040 - 30.9% 2,016,456 - 48.5%

Natural Gas 449,389 - 41.3% 896,590 - 21.6%

Nuclear 105,764 - 9.7% 806,425 - 19.4%

Hydro 77,644 - 7.1% 247,510 - 6.0%

Petroleum 62,394 - 5.7% 65,739 - 1.6%

Renewables 32,676 - 3.0% 105,238 - 2.5%

Other 23,884 - 2.2% 18,788 - 0.4%

Total 1,087,791 - 99.9% 4,156,745 - 100%

EIA Electric Power Annual 2007, Tables 1.1 & 2.2.
 The fossil fuel problem
• Climate change is happening – and is largely
driven by human combustion of fossil fuels.
• There are ample fossil fuels remaining in the
ground to add 8 to 10 times more CO2 to our
atmosphere.
• Fossil fuels are cheap and convenient – and
we have developed the technologies to use
them in many ways
Today we will hear about four issues
related to energy supply
1.Policy and implementation of new
technologies – Gerry Stokes
2.Carbon capture and storage – Mike
Trachtenberg
3.Carbon taxes – making alternatives
economically viable – Mike Walsh
4.Algal biofuels to displace petroleum
based transportation fuels – Steve
Mayfield