Report examines total energy expenditures, GDP

The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) State Energy Data System (SEDS) has evaluated each state’s total energy expenditures and value as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).

The analysis showed every state saw increases in both areas in 2017 compared with the previous year. Only the District of Columbia had a decrease in total energy expenditures.

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Wyoming, which tend to have relatively more energy-intensive industries, were among the states having a much higher percentage of energy expenditures per dollar of GDP while the District of Columbia and states possessing concentrated urban areas with less energy-intensive industries have the lowest expenditures per GDP.

In 2017, energy expenditures per GDP reached 5.8 percent, per the report, a rise from a record low of 5.6 percent in 2016, after its first annual increase since 2011.

Louisiana had the highest energy expenditures per GDP of any state in 2017 at 13.5 percent, as the numbers showed Louisiana has been ranked highest every year since 1997, the earliest year for which EIA has state data.

The report revealed New York possessed the lowest energy expenditures per GDP of any state for nearly every year since 1997, while the District of Columbia’s energy expenditures per GDP were even lower during the same period.