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Total electricity sales excluding direct use · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated

Total electricity sales excluding direct use

US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook, 2021, published 2021

Publishers Envisioning Hype Cycle explorer Forecast vs actual

electricity_sales in 2041: 4335.1 billion kWh

Source

Verdict

Not graded yet.

The same forecast in other editions

20174229.63 billion kWh
20184298.02 billion kWh
20194376.29 billion kWh
20204374.84 billion kWh
20214335.1 billion kWh
20224352.88 billion kWh
20234362.38 billion kWh
20255162.34 billion kWh

All captured fields

series: electricity_sales
target year: 2041
value: 4335.1
unit: billion kWh
case: Reference
retrospective: AEO Retrospective 2025 (data file, pulled August 2025)
column: CNSM_NA_ELEP_NA_ELS_NA_USA_BLNKWH
confidence: high

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https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2021-115

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Hindsight, claim eia-aeo-2021-115. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2021-115

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