Table 5.  U.S. Electric Generating Capacity, 1990
          (Megawatts)[a]

         Source              1990     
 
Hydroelectric[b].......... 72,693 
Geothermal................  2,720    
Biomass...................  9,114   
Solar/PV..................    404     
Wind......................  2,267   

  Total Renewables........ 87,198   

Nonrenewables[c]......... 692,980  

Total.................... 780,178  See the next edition for updates

   [a]For 1990 and 1991, nameplate capacity is used. For 1992-
1994, net summer capability is used.
   [b] Excludes pumped storage, which is included in
"Nonrenewables."
   [c] Includes hydrogen, sulfur, batteries, chemicals, spent
sulfite liquor, and hydroelectric pumped storage. For 1990 and
1991, EIA utility hydroelectric pumped storage values were
subtracted from renewable "hydroelectric" category
estimates from the source used for renewable data for these years.
These pumped storage estimates were then added to the
"nonrenewables" category. This was done to improve
definitional consistency of the data shown, since EIA does not
classify pumped storage as renewable energy.
   Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent
rounding.
   Sources: 1990-1991: Pumped storage: Energy Information
Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate
Fuels. Other Utility: Energy Information Administration,
Inventory of Power Plants in the United States, DOE/EIA-0095
(Washington, DC, 1990 and 1991). Nonutility: Edison Electric
Institute, 1993 Capacity and Generation of Non-Utility Sources
of Energy (Washington, DC, November 1994), p. 52; 1992: Energy
Information Administration, Electric Power Annual 1993,
DOE/EIA-0348(93) (Washington, DC), pp. 17-18; 1993-1994: Energy
Information Administration, Electric Power Annual 1994, Volume
2, DOE/EIA-0348(94/2) (Washington, DC), pp. 15-16.