October 3, 2001—The DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Electric Power Annual 2000 earlier this month. The publication provides a review of the year 2000 for the electric power industry, and features the beginning of the electrical crisis in California while electric industry restructuring continued in other states. Hydropower, the primary source of renewable electricity in the United States, suffered from drought conditions that lowered output by about 13 percent compared to 1999. The other renewable energy sources—including solar, wind, geothermal energy, and biomass power—remained lost in the “other” category, producing only 2.2 percent of the United States’ electricity. See the report on the EIA Web site.
