FedGov Says: Less Need For A/C This Summer

US Energy Information Administration Short-Term Energy Outlook ^ | 7 June 2011 | US Energy Information Administration

[Steely Tom]

Look what you find way down in paragraph 30 of this U.S. Government web page:

U.S. Electricity Consumption. EIA expects little change in total U.S. electricity consumption between 2010 and 2011 (U.S. Total Electricity Consumption Chart). Cooling degree-days during 2011 are assumed to be 14 percent lower than last year, which drives the projected 2.5-percent decline in retail electricity sales to the residential sector. Improved economic conditions should lead to a 3.6-percent increase in sales to the industrial sector, while commercial-sector electricity sales show little change in 2011. During 2012, total U.S. electricity consumption grows by 2.0 percent.

[metmom]

What they are saying here is that they expect temperatures this summer to average 14% lower than last summer's average, and that this will lead to an overall decline in electricity usage by homeowners.

Where? Not for us.....

:)