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Total energy consumption (all sectors) · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated

Total energy consumption (all sectors)

US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook, 2020, published 2020

Publishers Envisioning Hype Cycle explorer Forecast vs actual

total_energy_consumption in 2040: 102.717 quadrillion Btu

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Verdict

Not graded yet.

The same forecast in other editions

2012110.901 quadrillion Btu
2013107.637 quadrillion Btu
2014106.312 quadrillion Btu
2015105.729 quadrillion Btu
2016107.147 quadrillion Btu
2017101.381 quadrillion Btu
2018103.978 quadrillion Btu
2019101.152 quadrillion Btu
2020102.717 quadrillion Btu
2021101.942 quadrillion Btu
2022102.705 quadrillion Btu
2023100.252 quadrillion Btu
202586.1878 quadrillion Btu

All captured fields

series: total_energy_consumption
target year: 2040
value: 102.717
unit: quadrillion Btu
case: Reference
retrospective: AEO Retrospective 2025 (data file, pulled August 2025)
column: CNSM_ENU_TEN_NA_TOT_NA_NA_QBTU
confidence: high

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https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2020-278

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Hindsight, claim eia-aeo-2020-278. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2020-278

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