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Table ES1.B. Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics,Year-to-Date 2008 and 2007
January through April
Net Generation and Consumption of Fuels
Items	Total (All Sectors)			Electric Power Sector				Commercial		Industrial
	Total (All Sectors)			Electric Utilities		Independent Power Producers		Commercial		Industrial
	2008	2007	% Change	2008	2007	2008	2007	2008	2007	2008	2007
Net Generation (thousand megawatthours)
Coal[1]	657,929	645,928	1.9	483,328	474,714	168,416	165,143	576	429	5,608	5,642
Petroleum Liquids[2]	9,864	20,101	-50.9	6,361	11,627	2,946	7,393	33	99	523	982
Petroleum Coke	4,572	5,232	-12.6	1,941	2,489	2,203	2,196	3	4	425	544
Natural Gas[3]	253,765	234,832	8.1	89,385	79,686	138,438	130,054	1,492	1,417	24,450	23,675
Other Gases[4]	5,446	5,250	3.7	13	22	1,877	1,292	--	7	3,557	3,928
Nuclear	257,587	260,838	-1.2	137,871	146,631	119,716	114,206	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Conventional	87,606	93,179	-6	78,243	83,989	8,268	8,129	40	41	1,056	1,019
Other Renewables	38,439	34,260	12.2	3,152	2,950	25,548	21,502	524	520	9,215	9,288
Wood[5]	12,517	12,477	0.3	647	659	2,889	2,718	6	7	8,976	9,093
Waste[6]	5,429	5,514	-1.5	364	395	4,308	4,411	518	513	240	195
Geothermal	4,680	4,880	-4.1	372	371	4,308	4,509	--	--	--	--
Solar/PV[7]	210	134	56.5	4	3	206	132	--	--	--	--
Wind	15,602	11,255	38.6	1,765	1,522	13,837	9,732	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Pumped Storage	-1,749	-1,851	5.5	-1,474	-1,463	-276	-388	--	--	--	--
Other Energy Sources[8]	3,876	4,522	-14.3	226	221	2,315	2,084	210	242	1,125	1,974
All Energy Sources	1,317,335	1,302,292	1.2	799,047	800,867	469,451	451,612	2,878	2,759	45,959	47,053
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation
Coal (1000 tons)¹	340,997	335,398	1.7	247,459	242,998	90,925	89,760	188	252	2,425	2,389
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	16,779	34,605	-51.5	11,116	19,922	4,776	12,638	56	204	832	1,841
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	1,785	2,053	-13	785	941	889	909	1	2	111	201
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	1,984,040	1,954,041	1.5	755,651	679,512	1,025,501	1,024,772	13,208	15,810	189,680	233,948
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	7,247	6,268	15.6	--	--	1,421	491	538	440	5,288	5,337
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	2,436	4,770	-48.9	--	--	387	85	100	222	1,949	4,463
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	414	317	30.6	--	--	48	*	4	3	361	314
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	259,796	171,768	51.2	--	--	99,362	38,657	9,515	7,943	150,919	125,168
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	348,244	341,667	1.9	247,459	242,998	92,346	90,252	725	692	7,713	7,726
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	19,215	39,375	-51.2	11,116	19,922	5,163	12,724	156	426	2,781	6,304
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	2,199	2,370	-7.2	785	941	937	909	5	5	472	515
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	2,243,836	2,125,809	5.6	755,651	679,512	1,124,863	1,063,429	22,723	23,753	340,599	359,116
Retail Sales, Retail Revenue and Average Retail Price per Kilowatthour
Items	Total U.S. Electric Power Industry
	Retail Sales (Million kWh)[9]			Retail Revenue (Million Dollars)			Average Retail Price (Cents/kWh)
	2008	2007	% Change	2008	2007	% Change	2008	2007	% Change
Residential	452,876	442,760	2.3	47,300	44,982	5.2	10.44	10.16	2.8
Commercial[10]	422,023	413,905	2	40,587	38,468	5.5	9.62	9.29	3.6
Industrial¹⁰	330,911	319,807	3.5	21,405	19,681	8.8	6.47	6.15	5.2
Transportation¹⁰	2,608	2,707	-3.7	278	274	1.5	10.66	10.12	5.3
All Sectors	1,208,419	1,179,180	2.5	109,571	103,405	6	9.07	8.77	3.4
[1] Anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, waste coal, and coal synfuel. [2] Distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, jet fuel, kerosene, and waste oil. [3] Natural gas includes a small amount of supplemental gaseous fuels that cannot be identified separately. [4] Blast furnace gas, propane gas, and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels. [5] Wood, black liquor, and other wood waste. [6] Biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, and other biomass. [7] Solar thermal and photovoltaic energy. [8] Non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, tire-derived fuel, and miscellaneous technologies. [9] Retail sales and net generation may not correspond exactly for a particular month for a variety of reasons (e.g., sales data may include imported electricity). Net generation is for the calendar month while retail sales and associated revenue accumulate from bills collected for periods of time (28 to 35 days) that vary dependent upon customer class and consumption occurring in and outside the calendar month. [10] See Technical notes for additional information on the Commercial, Industrial, and Transportation sectors. * = Value is less than half of the smallest unit of measure (e.g., for values with no decimals, the smallest unit is "1" then values under 0.5 are shown as "".) Notes: Beginning with the collection of Form EIA-923 in January 2008, the methodology to allocate total fuel consumption for electricity generation and consumption for useful thermal output was changed. See the technical notes (Appendix C) for further information. Beginning with 2001 data, non-biogenic municipal solid waste and tire-derived fuels are reclassified as non-renewable energy sources and included in "Other". Biogenic municipal solid waste is included in "Other Renewables." Values for 2007 and 2008 are preliminary. Values for January through July 2007 are revised. Values from Forms EIA-826, EIA-906, and EIA-920 for 2007 and values from Form EIA-923 for 2008 are estimates based on samples - see Technical Notes for a discussion of the sample designs. Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. Percent difference is calculated before rounding. Sources*: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-826, "Monthly Electric Sales and Revenue With State Distributions Report;" Form EIA-906, "Power Plant Report;" Form EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report;" Beginning with 2008 data, the Form EIA-923, "Power Plant Operations Report," replaced the following: Form EIA-906, "Power Plant Report;" Form EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report;" Form EIA-423, "Monthly Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report;" and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Form 423, "Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants."