The pie charts illustrate the proportion of electricity consumption by different sectors in Eastern Australia in 2007 and 2010.
Overall, residential and commercial sectors remained the largest consumers of electricity in both years, while Transport and Agriculture accounted for the smallest amounts. Notably, the proportion of users in manufacturing and aluminium decreased slightly.
According to the pie charts, residential sector used the highest amount of electricity, at 28%, followed by commercial used at 23% in 2007. Manufacturing accounted for similar percentages 13%, while others metals represented 12%. The percentage of electricity in Mining made up 9%.Meanwhile, Agriculture and transport used small amounts at 1%.
By 2010, residential and commercial usage remained unchanged at 28% and 23%. However other metals rose significantly from 12% to 18%. In contrast, Aluminium dropped to 11%, whereas manufacturing fell sharply to 9%. Mining and agriculture maintained their sharesat 9% and 1% and transport represented the smallest fraction at 1%.