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Tender Branson
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« on: December 12, 2014, 01:50:32 AM »

My electricity company provides a nice overview on the annual bill of my annual energy mix.

The electricity that I consumed for the past reference year was made up of:

84.2% Hydro-Power (water)
  5.3% Wind-Power
  3.6% Bio-Mass
  1.4% Other renewable energy
  5.5% Gas
  0.0% Nuclear
  0.0% Oil
  0.0% Coal

Another interesting fact of my energy mix:

The production of it led to 19.04 grams/kWh (kilo watt hour) COČ.

Plus:

54.61% of my energy mix comes from Austria, 45.39% from Norway (!).

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I'm pretty happy that 95% of my energy mix comes from renewables.
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2014, 01:52:40 AM »

Ours is like 35% wind, the rest being mostly coal and a bit of natty gas
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2014, 06:31:19 AM »

Iron Maiden and some other metal, with Queen sprinkled in.
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2014, 10:03:36 AM »

Pretty sure FPL is nuclear power.
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2014, 10:16:16 AM »

Looks to be about 30% nuclear with most of the rest from "clean" coal.  A bit from wind.  And a few places that turn on during peak periods using various forms of energy (landfill, fuel oil, NG).
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2014, 10:21:32 AM »

The furnace in my house runs on propane, although we used to have one that used oil.  (I remember many a time when I came home from school and could smell the oil after a tank filling.)  Our water heater runs on electricity, which I assume comes from a coal-burning power plant.  I'd like to work toward more sustainable sources, though.  When our current supply of light bulbs vanishes, I'm planning to buy some LEDs. 
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2014, 11:20:40 AM »

Red Bull, mostly.
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2014, 12:18:01 PM »

300 mg of caffiene
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2014, 12:29:08 PM »


Ha, yeah, that's what I originally thought of when I saw this thread.

But yeah, for me, mostly electric and some natural gas.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2014, 12:40:59 PM »

SCE&G doesn't break it down to tenths of a percent, but says they get 30% from each of nuclear, gas, and coal plus 10% from renewable sources, mainly hydro.  They're in the midst of building two nuclear plants and when they go online, they intend on using them to replace coal plants, plus they're planning on converting one coal plant to using natural gas instead.
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2014, 01:11:04 PM »

Majority from coal, followed by nuclear, and then a growing solar and wind share. PNM's PR team has been selling that they plan to phase out coal by 2050 and make NM a majority wind state. We'll see.
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2014, 01:50:02 PM »

My energy mix?

Food and drinks.
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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2014, 07:45:07 PM »
« Edited: December 12, 2014, 07:52:22 PM by realisticidealist »

My energy company (Avista) is

48% Hydropower
35% Natural Gas
  9% Coal
  6% Wind
  2% Biomass

56% Renewable
44% Nonrenewable

My old energy company (Snohomish PUD) was

86% Hydropower
10% Nuclear
  2% Coal
  1% Wind
  1% Natural Gas and Other

87% Renewable
13% Nonrenewable
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2014, 02:37:25 AM »

Coffee
Monster
cigs
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2014, 03:34:30 AM »

Jackson Electric Membership Corporation:

21% nuclear
20% coal
  6% natural gas
  2% hydroelectric
49% purchased via contracted statewide strategic power supply partner (source unspecified)
  2% unspecified renewables purchased via Green Power EMC
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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2014, 07:32:00 PM »

My house generates ~120% of its power from solar energy, meaning we feed more power into the grid than we use.

That said, because we don't have electrical storage capacity, the electricity we're using at non-peak sun hours comes from Pepco's (Potomac Electric Power Company) general pool, which I was just reading about the other day while home sick from work. They're pretty much exclusively non-renewable, unfortunately.
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2014, 02:33:16 PM »

I have no energy so I just nap.
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« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2014, 03:08:44 PM »

Nova Scotia Power
Coal: 63%
Natural Gas: 12%
Wind: 9%
Hydro: 7%
Other: 9%

So not the most environmentally friendly Sad
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« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2014, 01:09:11 AM »

I'm in Quebec, so, pretty close of 100% of hydro.
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« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2014, 01:17:18 AM »

Dominion Power doesn't provide any details as to the source of my electricity on the bill itself, but here's what I was able to glean from Wikipedia (in descending order):

Coal: 46%
Nuclear: 41%
Natural Gas: 9% 
Hydro & other Renewables: 3%
Oil: 1%
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