Energy Sources in New England
2011

Below is the breakdown of generation by fuel type plus imports and exports over individual tie lines that make up New England's net energy for load for 2011. This information is also available in a spreadsheet [XLS], which provides the data by month and by year dating back to 2000. Note that the data is preliminary and may be revised in May 2012, after ISO New England has completed the 90-day resettlement process.

  GWh (a) % of Total
TOTAL GENERATION (b) 120,613 93.4%
Gas 46,379 36.0%
Nuclear 34,283 26.5%
Oil/Gas 15,925 12.3%
Hydro: Run of River & Pondage 8,253 6.4%
Total Renewables 7,262 5.6%
Wood/Refuse 3,280  
Refuse 2,671  
Wind 760  
Landfill Gas 335  
Steam 146  
Methane/Refuse 31  
Steam/Refuse 29  
Solar 10  
Coal 7,079 5.5%
Hydro: Pumped Storage 1149 0.9%
Oil 282 0.2%
     
NET FLOW OVER EXTERNAL TIES (c) -10,134 7.8%
New Brunswick -846  
New York 2,244  
Quebec -11,532  
Total Imports -15,866  
New Brunswick -1,294  
New York -3,040  
Quebec -11,533  
Total Exports 5,732  
New Brunswick 448  
New York 5,284  
Quebec 1  
     
PUMPING LOAD (d) 1,589 -1.2%
     
NET ENERGY FOR LOAD (e) 129,158 100%

(a) GWh stands for gigawatt-hour. Numbers are preliminary pending 90-day resettlement.

(b) Data are not available for the amount of generation by individual fuels in dual fuel units such as oil/gas.

(c) Imports are negative; exports are positive.

(d) The energy used to operate pumped storage plants.

(e) Generation + net interchange - pumping load.

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