, Columnist
Americans Keep Using Less Electricity
Efficiency has driven down per-capita use for years now. Electric vehicles could change that.
Economic growth picked up a little in the U.S. in 2017. But electricity use fell, according to data released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration. It's now been basically flat for more than a decade:
Measured on a per-capita basis, electricity use is in clear decline, and is already back to the levels of the mid-1990s.1519828250470