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Table 7d. U.S. Electricity Generation by Fuel and Sector Billion Kilowatthours per Day
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Electric Power Sector^a
Coal	5.397	5.475	5.399	5.006	5.046
Natural Gas	2.012	2.232	2.182	2.239	2.238
Other Gases	0.012	0.011	0.009	0.009	0.010
Petroleum	0.164	0.168	0.116	0.110	0.110
Residual Fuel Oil	0.093	0.104	0.060	0.044	0.035
Distillate Fuel Oil	0.018	0.022	0.017	0.015	0.016
Petroleum Coke	0.049	0.038	0.035	0.046	0.059
Other Petroleum	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.002	0.001
Nuclear	2.157	2.209	2.203	2.215	2.231
Pumped Storage Hydroelectric	-0.018	-0.019	-0.017	-0.015	-0.016
Other Fuels^b	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.019
Renewables:
Conventional Hydroelectric	0.784	0.674	0.672	0.705	0.715
Geothermal	0.040	0.040	0.041	0.041	0.043
Solar	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.003
Wind	0.073	0.094	0.142	0.167	0.209
Wood and Wood Waste	0.028	0.029	0.030	0.030	0.031
Other Renewables	0.038	0.039	0.041	0.044	0.051
Subtotal Electric Power Sector	10.707	10.974	10.838	10.572	10.691
Commercial Sector^c
Coal	0.004	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.004
Natural Gas	0.012	0.012	0.011	0.011	0.011
Petroleum	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.001	0.001
Other Fuels^b	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
Renewables^d	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.005
Subtotal Commercial Sector	0.023	0.023	0.022	0.022	0.023
Industrial Sector^c
Coal	0.053	0.046	0.046	0.042	0.045
Natural Gas	0.213	0.213	0.203	0.192	0.187
Other Gases	0.027	0.026	0.023	0.020	0.019
Petroleum	0.012	0.012	0.008	0.009	0.009
Other Fuels^b	0.014	0.013	0.007	0.008	0.008
Renewables:
Conventional Hydroelectric	0.008	0.004	0.005	0.005	0.005
Wood and Wood Waste	0.078	0.077	0.076	0.071	0.071
Other Renewables^e	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001
Subtotal Industrial Sector	0.406	0.392	0.371	0.348	0.345
Total All Sectors	11.136	11.388	11.230	10.942	11.059

^a	Electric utilities and independent power producers.
^b	"Other" includes non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, tires and miscellaneous technologies.
^c	Commercial and industrial sectors include electricity output from combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and some electric-only plants.
^d	"Renewables" in commercial sector includes wood, black liquor, other wood waste, biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, other biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic energy and wind.
^e	"Other Renewables" in industrial sector includes black liquor, biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, other biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic energy and wind.

	- = 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.
	Values of 0.000 may indicate positive levels of generation that are less than 0.0005 billion kilowatthours per day.
	Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the following reports: Electric Power Monthly, DOE/EIA-0226; and Electric Power Annual, DOE/EIA-0348.
	Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding.
	Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.