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This is a very important question, because it would help to answer the other question "Should people be more concerned with the electricity they use/waste in their household, or with the (probably) far great electricity used/wasted by businesses and industry?".
As a related example, consider a person who goes to great lengths to save water at home but then haplessly consumes a pound of beef over, say, a week. The water consumed to make a pound of beef is between 1500 and 2500 gallons!
A similar imbalance in focus surely exists regarding electricity. So many homes go pitch black during the night to avoid leaving that last 60 watt bulb in the hallway on. But how many people stop to consider the stores such as Walmart, other businesses, and industrial buildings that simply leave their lights on full bore during the night... just to minimize thefts?
The real question is of the electricity used in America, what percent is used by households, companies, public services (e.g. street lights), and industry? I wouldn't be surprised if households use 10% and industries used 70%.
If indeed that were the case, then the feverish and myopic focus most people have on individual household savings would actually just be distracting us from where we could really save electricity.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency reports that the industrial sector consumes approximately one-third of the total energy consumed annually. The largest users of energy in the industrial sector are the bulk chemical, refining, paper, mining, and construction industries. Those five industries together account for more than 61 percent of total industrial delivered energy consumption. Although the largest current user of energy is the bulk chemicals industry, the refining industry, which includes energy use at petroleum, biofuel, and coal-to-liquids (CTL) facilities, is projected to become the largest energy-consuming industry starting in 2027.
[source: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/early_consumption.cfm]
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