U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON DC 20585
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2000
Nonutility Net Generation Up 37 Percent in 1999
Net generation of electricity from nonutility (nonregulated) generators increased 37 percent in 1999, advancing from 11 percent to 15 percent of total net electricity generation according to information released today by the Energy Information Administration in Electric Power Annual 1999 Volume II (see Figure). Electric utilities (regulated generators) and nonutility generators combined to produce a record 3.7 trillion kilowatthours in 1999, a 3.1 percent increase over 1998.
The shift in electricity generation from regulated to nonregulated generators was driven largely by State-level restructuring legislation which requires or encourages divestiture of a utility's generating assets. In 1999, 50,884 megawatts of electricity generating capability was sold by utilities to nonutilities. In addition to the purchases of generating assets from utilities, nonutility companies added 6,769 megawatts of new capability, compared with the 3,689 megawatts added by utilities.
Additional highlights from the report include:
- Over half (54 percent) of the nonutility net generation of nearly 0.6 trillion kilowatthours was from gas. Coal, however, increased its share of nonutility net generation to almost 23 percent in 1999 from 16 percent in 1998, primarily as a result of recent purchases of coal-fired generating capability from utilities. More detailed data on nonutility capability will be available later this month with the release of Inventory of Nonutility Electric Power Plants in the United States 1999. For detailed utility capability data, see Inventory of Electric Utility Power Plants in the United States 1999 at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/ipp/ipp99_sum.html.
- Although there was a 3.1 percent increase in net electricity generation, utility and nonutility emissions of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide were up 2.1 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively, as most new generating capability is gas-fired. Nitrogen oxide emissions remained unchanged from the 1998 level.
Electric Power Annual 1999 Volume II is available on EIA's Internet site at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epav2/epav2_sum.html Printed copies of the report will be available in November from the U.S. Government Printing Office, 202/512-1800 or through EIA's National Energy Information Center, 202/586-8800.
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