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Table ES1.B. Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics,Year-to-Date 2008 and 2007
January through September
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]	1,516,211	1,523,714	-0.5	1,121,470	1,125,422	380,354	384,287	1,199	954	13,188	13,051
Petroleum Liquids[2]	24,434	41,671	-41.4	17,071	27,781	6,170	11,898	76	155	1,117	1,837
Petroleum Coke	10,221	12,131	-15.7	4,311	5,642	4,958	5,174	3	6	948	1,310
Natural Gas[3]	674,250	688,035	-2	241,790	240,336	373,616	388,705	3,263	3,400	55,581	55,594
Other Gases[4]	11,795	11,923	-1.1	18	54	3,866	2,896	--	16	7,911	8,956
Nuclear	606,491	607,846	-0.2	320,913	336,198	285,578	271,648	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Conventional	209,702	199,261	5.2	190,634	181,560	17,337	15,760	61	59	1,671	1,882
Other Renewables	85,438	76,567	11.6	6,798	6,358	56,237	47,565	1,262	1,222	21,141	21,421
Wood[5]	28,602	28,729	-0.4	1,415	1,505	6,584	6,263	14	15	20,590	20,946
Waste[6]	12,525	12,723	-1.6	842	894	9,883	10,146	1,248	1,208	551	475
Geothermal	10,967	11,060	-0.8	889	840	10,078	10,220	--	--	--	--
Solar/PV[7]	717	532	34.6	12	10	704	523	--	--	--	--
Wind	32,627	23,522	38.7	3,640	3,109	28,987	20,413	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Pumped Storage	-4,668	-4,922	5.2	-3,820	-3,899	-848	-1,023	--	--	--	--
Other Energy Sources[8]	8,276	10,388	-20.3	451	508	4,997	4,830	570	575	2,258	4,475
All Energy Sources	3,142,149	3,166,614	-0.8	1,899,635	1,919,960	1,132,265	1,131,740	6,435	6,388	103,815	108,526
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation
Coal (1000 tons)¹	793,576	793,934	0	579,208	577,696	208,066	210,043	371	551	5,930	5,643
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	41,945	72,400	-42.1	29,802	47,862	10,400	20,748	127	308	1,616	3,483
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	3,997	4,773	-16.3	1,745	2,143	2,002	2,153	1	3	250	474
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	5,396,069	5,790,061	-6.8	2,103,287	2,113,610	2,839,257	3,093,672	28,147	37,333	425,378	545,446
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	16,237	13,621	19.2	--	--	3,236	1,089	1,250	874	11,751	11,658
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	5,105	8,231	-38	--	--	605	155	185	290	4,315	7,786
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	823	784	4.9	--	--	93	3	4	5	725	777
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	587,664	500,635	17.4	--	--	229,754	119,702	19,012	25,379	338,898	355,553
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	809,813	807,554	0.3	579,208	577,696	211,302	211,132	1,622	1,425	17,681	17,301
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	47,050	80,631	-41.6	29,802	47,862	11,004	20,903	312	598	5,931	11,268
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	4,820	5,557	-13.3	1,745	2,143	2,095	2,156	5	8	975	1,251
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	5,983,733	6,290,696	-4.9	2,103,287	2,113,610	3,069,011	3,213,375	47,159	62,712	764,277	900,999
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	1,069,051	1,074,882	-0.5	120,671	114,455	5.4	11.29	10.65	6
Commercial[10]	1,031,729	1,016,602	1.5	106,407	98,451	8.1	10.31	9.68	6.5
Industrial¹⁰	765,484	753,291	1.6	53,477	48,039	11.3	6.99	6.38	9.6
Transportation¹⁰	5,734	5,865	-2.2	659	618	6.6	11.49	10.54	9
All Sectors	2,871,998	2,850,639	0.7	281,214	261,564	7.5	9.79	9.18	6.6
[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."