As long as people keep building stupid power consuming items like the milk maid the US will always use far more power than it will ever create from renewable sources.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/milkmaid-replaces-the-milk-sniff-test-with-technology/6808?tag=search-riverIf every American eliminated stupid power vampires like this I bet the power consumption in the US would drop a few percent.