US electricity
consumption Equivalence
Nuclear contribution |
The US in 1995 consumed 2994.5
billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to an around-the-clock
average power consumption of 341.6 billion watts.
A typical large power plant produces about a billion watts, so this is equivalent to nearly 350 large power plants going night and day. Of that electricity, nuclear plants generated 750 billion kilowatt-hours, some 25% of the total. |