{"id":2547,"date":"2020-10-09T08:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:54:30","slug":"day-2-how-much-energy-do-we-use-in-new-jersey-and-its-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/archived-posts\/day-2-how-much-energy-do-we-use-in-new-jersey-and-its-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 \u2013 How much energy do we use in New Jersey and its costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s total energy use is 2,241 trillion Btus\/ year, ranking 15<sup>th <\/sup>in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On average each person uses 252 million Btus\/year, ranking 36<sup>th<\/sup> in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One gallon of gasoline is about 120,000 Btus, one therm of natural gas is 100,000 Btus and 1 kWh of electricity is 3,412 Btus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jersey\u2019s annual energy uses (2018 approximate):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>75 billion kWh of electricity at a cost $10 billion emitting 18 million metric tons (MT) of CO2 (includes natural gas used to generate electricity)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 billion therms of natural gas at a cost $5 billion emitting 26 million MT CO2 emissions.&nbsp; Natural gas heating accounts for 78% of the market, with 12% electric and the rest oil (7%) and propane (3%).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.8 billion gallons of motor fuel at a cost of $12 billion emitting 40 million MT of CO2 emissions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total energy use 26% in the residential sector, 26% in commercial, 12% by industry and 36% in transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jerseyans spend $33 billion annually for their energy, ranking us 12<sup>th<\/sup> in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On average each person in New Jersey spends $3,709 per year on energy cost, ranking us 34<sup>th<\/sup> in the US.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Energy tip:<\/strong>&nbsp; Our largest energy use, costs and impacts are in transportation \u2013 See the US Department of Energy website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/drive.shtml\">https:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/drive.shtml<\/a> for tips of lowering your fuel use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey\u2019s total energy use is 2,241 trillion Btus\/ year, ranking 15th in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp; On average each person uses 252 million Btus\/year, ranking 36th in the US. One gallon of gasoline is about 120,000 Btus, one therm of natural gas is 100,000 Btus and 1 kWh of electricity is 3,412 Btus.&nbsp;&nbsp; New Jersey\u2019s annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}