IELTS Writing Practice 4 Task 1

The graph shows us about the consumption of the energy in US from 1980 until the projection in 2030.

  The first energy is petrol and oil which is the biggest energy consumption in US. In 1980, petrol  and oil was consumed about 35 quadrillion units. The following years, the consumption was decreased until 1985, which is the lowest consumption and then it was increased again until 1990 and decreased again until 1995. After 1995, the consumption tended to rise up until 2014 and this will be predicted continue to rise up until 2030.

Coal and natural gas is the second biggest energy consumption group. In the beginning, 1980, coal consumption was about near 15 quadrillion units and natural gas was 20 quadrillion units. Their total consumption even was quite same after 1980 until 2014, but after 2015 it will be predicted that coal will be more in consumption than natural gas in the following years. However the gap difference will not be very far. The projetion in 2030 shows us that coal consumption will touch 30 quadrillion units and the other side natural gas will be little below coal about 25 quadrillion units.

    The third group of energy consumption was nuclear, solar/wind, and hydropower. Three of them had same total number consumption in 1980, which was about below 5 quadrillion units. Their total consumption was not really different. However, the projection in 2030, nuclear will be the first, solar will be the second, and hydropower will be the last one in total consumption in this group that their consumption will be below 10 quadrillion units.

Overall, the petrol and oil will continue as the most dominant energy consumption in US and the coal and natural gas will still rise up in consumption even not really significant.