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Date Published : December 9, 2008
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Table 6. U.S. Coal Supply, Consumption, and Inventories
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Supply (Million short tons)
Production	1131.5	1162.7	1146.6	1178.2	1148.1
Appalachia	397.3	391.9	378.5	393.4	381.2
Interior	149.2	151.4	147.1	145.0	141.3
Western	585.0	619.4	621.0	639.8	625.6
Primary Inventory Withdrawals	6.2	-1.6	2.6	6.7	2.6
Imports	30.5	36.2	36.3	33.8	35.0
Exports	49.9	49.6	59.2	82.8	71.9
Metallurgical Coal	28.7	27.5	32.2	43.5	33.8
Steam Coal	21.3	22.1	27.0	39.3	38.1
Total Primary Supply	1118.2	1147.8	1126.4	1135.9	1113.9
Secondary Inventory Withdrawals	3.5	-41.1	-8.3	-7.9	-2.2
Waste Coal^a	13.4	14.4	14.1	14.9	15.0
Total Supply	1135.1	1121.1	1132.2	1142.9	1126.7
Consumption (Million short tons)
Coke Plants	23.4	23.0	22.7	21.8	20.4
Electric Power Sector^b	1037.5	1026.6	1046.4	1049.5	1047.5
Retail and Other Industry	67.2	65.5	63.3	62.1	58.8
Residential and Commercial	4.7	3.2	3.5	3.5	3.2
Other Industry	62.5	62.2	59.8	58.6	55.6
Total Consumption	1128.1	1115.1	1132.4	1133.4	1126.7
Discrepancy^c	7.0	6.1	3.3	9.8	0.0
End-of-period Inventories (Million short tons)
Primary Inventories^d	35.0	36.5	34.0	27.3	24.7
Secondary Inventories^e	109.3	150.4	158.7	166.6	168.8
Electric Power Sector	101.1	141.0	151.1	158.9	160.6
Retail and General Industry	5.6	6.5	5.6	5.3	5.8
Coke Plants	2.6	2.9	1.9	2.0	2.0
Coal Market Indicators
Coal Miner Productivity (Tons per hour)	6.36	6.26	6.27	6.24	6.00
Total Raw Steel Production (Million short tons per day)	0.285	0.289	0.293	0.282	0.261
Cost of Coal to Electric Utilities (Dollars per million Btu)	1.54	1.69	1.78	2.03	1.96

^a	Waste coal includes waste coal and cloal slurry reprocessed into briquettes.
^b	Coal used for electricity generation and (a limited amount of) useful thermal output by electric utilities and independent power producers.
^c	The discrepancy reflects an unaccounted-for shipper and receiver reporting difference, assumed to be zero in the forecast period.
^d	Primary stocks are held at the mines, generation plants, and distribution points.
^e	Secondary stocks are held by users. It includes an estimate of stocks held at utility plants sold to nonutility generators.

	- = no data available
	Notes: The approximate break between historical and forecast values is shown with historical data printed in bold; estimates and forecasts in italics.
	Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the following reports: Quarterly Coal Report, DOE/EIA-0121; and Electric Power Monthly, DOE/EIA-0226.
	Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding.
	Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.