While renewable energy is expected to increase its share of electric generation, it will still remain a small portion of total generation over the next 25 years
2012 Energy Outlook: Fossil Fuels Leading the Future
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook for 2012 (AEO) this week. The AEO updates EIA's reference case forecasts for regulatory changes and data changes that have occurred since it released its earlier version at the beginning of this year. The full outlook also contains 29 sensitivity cases that examine changes to the reference case assumptions to highlight the uncertainty that exists in projecting the energy future for the next 25 years.[ia] In the updated reference case, the nation's future looks roughly the same as it did in the early release version that IER summarized here.
