據烴加工3月17日消息稱，EIA 預測，到2050年，美國的能源消耗將繼續增長，主要受人口和經濟增長的推動。在這種僅反映現行法律法規的案例中，到2050年，可再生能源是增長最快的能源來源，而石油仍然是能源消費的最大份額，其次是天然氣。

交通運輸和工業加工是美國石油和其他化石液體的主要消費者。EIA預計，從2021年到2050年，美國工業部門能源消耗的增長速度將是其他任何終端使用部門的兩倍多。在工業領域，對石油需求增長最快的是作為原料的碳氫氣體液體(HGL)。石油仍然是農業、建筑、采礦等非制造業以及煉油加工的主要燃料。

EIA 預計美國的天然氣消費量將繼續增長，這主要是由于預期天然氣價格與歷史水平相比將保持低位。從 2020 年代初開始，美國工業部門一直是天然氣的最大消費國，主要是使用天然氣作為原料的化工行業，以及多個行業熱和電力消耗的增加。具體來說，在整個預測期間，大宗化學品工業是最大的工業能源使用者，它對整個工業部門能源消費增長的貢獻最大。

EIA 預計，到 2020 年代中期，大宗化學品行業將建造使用天然氣和 HGL 原料生產化學品的設施。2020 年代前五年之后，隨著大宗化工行業的增長轉向二級化工生產，天然氣和HGL原料消費增長放緩，二級化工生產側重于從商品化學品中生產的化學品，而不是HGL或天然氣。

石油和其他液體（主要是車用汽油和餾分燃料油）是美國運輸部門消耗的主要燃料。車用汽油滿足公路客運輕型車輛 (LDV) 的出行需求，而柴油消費滿足我們假設的中型和重型貨車出行的增長。

盡管空調、照明和其他終端用途的效率持續提高，電力仍然是建筑中增長最快的能源來源。到2050年，現場發電(主要來自太陽能光伏發電)的增長速度快于購買的建筑物電網電力。

EIA 預計到 2050 年，太陽能光伏等分布式發電技術最終將提供 8% 的家庭用電和 6% 的商業建筑用電。此外，EIA 預計，用于空間供暖的天然氣是美國商業和住宅能源消耗的最大貢獻者，到2050年，天然氣消費量有所下降。

朱佳妮 摘譯自 烴加工

原文如下：

Petroleum, natural gas will be the most-used fuels in the U.S. through 2050

The EIA projects that U.S. energy consumption will grow through 2050, primarily driven by population and economic growth. In this case, which reflects only current laws and regulations, renewable energy is the fastest-growing energy source through 2050, and petroleum remains the largest share of energy consumption throughout that period, followed by natural gas.

Transportation and industrial processes are the primary consumers of petroleum and other liquids in the U.S. The EIA projects that U.S. industrial sector energy consumption will grow more than twice as fast as any other end-use sector from 2021 to 2050. In the industrial sector, the most growth in demand for petroleum is for hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) used as a feedstock. Petroleum remains a major fuel for non-manufacturing industries such as agriculture, construction, and mining, as well as for refining processes.

The EIA projects that U.S. consumption of natural gas will keep growing, primarily driven by expectations that natural gas prices will remain low compared with historical levels. Starting in the early 2020s, the U.S. industrial sector has been the largest consumer of natural gas, primarily by the chemical industries that use natural gas as a feedstock and by increased heat-and-power consumption across multiple industries. Specifically, the bulk chemicals industry is the largest industrial energy user throughout the projection period, and it contributes the most to the growth in energy consumption in the industrial sector as a whole.

The EIA projects that through the mid-2020s, the bulk chemicals industry will build facilities that use natural gas and HGL feedstocks to produce chemicals. After the first half of the 2020s, growth in natural gas and HGL feedstock consumption slows as growth in the bulk chemicals industry shifts to secondary chemical production, which focuses on chemicals produced from commodity chemicals, as opposed to HGLs or natural gas.

Petroleum and other liquids (mainly motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil) are the primary fuels consumed in the U.S transportation sector. Motor gasoline meets on-road passenger light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel demand, while diesel consumption meets our assumed increases in medium- and heavy-duty freight truck travel.

Despite continued efficiency gains in air-conditioning, lighting, and other end uses, electricity continues to be the fastest-growing source of energy used in buildings. onsite electricity generation, primarily from solar photovoltaics (PV), grows faster than purchased grid electricity for buildings through 2050.

The EIA projects that distributed generation technologies such as solar PV will ultimately supply 8% of electricity consumed in households and 6% of electricity consumed in commercial buildings by 2050. In addition, the EIA projects that natural gas consumed for space heating, which is the largest single contributor to both U.S. commercial and residential delivered energy consumption, declines through 2050.