Energy: Surprising facts and what they mean

30% more demand for electricity in the U.S., from 1990 to 2009 ¹

$25 billion lost each year to inefficient power transmission and distribution ²

What we’re doing about it

What if your dishwasher could run itself when the sun's out and solar power is cheap?

This isn't just science fiction. We are helping build pilot smart grids in Texas, California and North Carolina.

$108 billion spent on energy in commercial buildings every year ³

30% of that energy could be
saved through efficiency ⁴

What we’re doing about it

EDF's Climate Corps finds savings today, and prepares tomorrow's business leaders.

We train MBA students and place them at companies like Facebook and Cisco. They sleuth out energy waste and ways to eliminate it.

65% of pollution that causes global warming comes from energy generation and use ⁵

50% of pollution must be cut by 2050 to avoid catastrophic changes to our climate ⁶

23% of global warming pollution is contributed by China ⁷

What we’re doing about it

Since 1991, we've worked in China to help develop ambitious pollution reduction targets. We link these cuts with fighting poverty.

One program pays more than a half million poor farmers to cut pollution through new farming practices. We aim to enlist 20 million families in the program by 2016.