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Technology and Program Market Data – Industrial Technologies
This Web page includes a summary of market data for the Industrial Technologies Program. Data includes market penetration; industry trends; cost, price, and performance trends; policy and market drivers; as well as future outlook.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory led an effort initiated by the Strategic Planning and Analysis group of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to produce a full report, which this page summarizes. The following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.
2008 Industrial Technologies Market Report
The 2008 Industrial Technologies Market Report (PDF 6.5 MB) begins with an overview of trends in industrial sector energy use. Trends in industry's emissions of greenhouse gases are also presented. Market and economic data for key industrial sectors provide the reader with a better understanding of the factors of production, including labor, capital, and energy. The next section of the report focuses on some of the largest and most energy-intensive industrial subsectors. For these subsectors—including chemicals production, petroleum refining, steelmaking, pulp and paper production, food processing, and others—the report provides market, financial, energy, and environmental data and trends. Each industry's supply chain and select stakeholders are also briefly described. The report also highlights several emerging technologies that could transform key segments of industry. A brief near-term outlook for the industrial sector is also provided. Finally, the report presents policies, incentives, and drivers that can influence the competitiveness of U.S. industrial firms. Highlights include:
- Industrial sector energy consumption continued to decline gradually. In 2007, U.S. industrial sector energy consumption was 32.3 Quadrillion Btu (quads). This was about 32% of total U.S. energy use in 2007 and considerably less than the record 1997 level of 35.3 quads. Excluding electric utility generation and transmission losses, net industrial energy use was 24.9 quads.
- Fossil energy sources, primarily natural gas and petroleum, continue to dominate energy use. About half the petroleum and nearly 10% of the natural gas consumed by industry are used as feedstock instead of heat and power. Electricity remains a major source of energy in many fabrication and assembly industries. Biomass and other renewable forms of energy now account for more industrial energy use than coal as coal use continues to slowly decline.
- Energy-intensive industries account for more than two-thirds of industrial energy use. Within industry, manufacturing accounts for about 85% of industrial energy use. Non-manufacturing industries such as agriculture, mining, oil and gas extraction, and construction account for the remainder.
- The U.S. industrial sector spent $227 billion on energy in 2006, a figure that represents about 3% of the sector's total output. Petroleum, purchased electricity, and natural gas accounted for the largest expenditures.
- The industrial sector emitted an estimated 2.61 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007 or nearly 36% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions for the year.
- Carbon dioxide contributed the largest portion of greenhouse gases emitted by industry. In 2007, industry emitted an estimated 1.76 billion metric tons of CO2, slightly less than the amount emitted by industry in 1990. This represented 29% of total U.S. CO2 emissions. Of this amount, energy use accounted for 94% of the emissions while industrial processes accounted for the remaining 6%.
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