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Electric Power Annual 2010 Data Tables

With Data for 2010   |  Release Date:  November 09, 2011   |  Next Release Date: November 2012

Table 3.2. Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Useful Thermal Output by Type of Combined Heat and Power Producers, 1999 through 2010
Type of Power Producer and Year Coal Petroleum Natural Gas Other Gases
(Thousand Tons)[1] (Thousand Barrels)[2] (Thousand Mcf) (Billion Btu)[3]
Total Combined Heat and Power
1999 20,373 26,822 982,958 223,713
2000 20,466 22,266 985,263 230,082
2001 18,944 18,268 898,286 166,161
2002 17,561 14,811 860,019 146,882
2003 17,720 17,939 721,267 137,837
2004 24,275 25,870 1,052,100 218,295
2005 23,833 24,408 984,340 238,396
2006 23,227 20,371 942,817 226,464
2007 22,810 19,775 872,579 214,321
2008 22,168 12,016 793,537 203,236
2009 20,507 13,161 816,787 175,671
2010 21,727 10,161 821,775 172,081
Electric Power[4]
1999 3,033 1,423 175,757 4,435
2000 3,107 1,412 192,253 6,641
2001 2,910 1,171 199,808 5,849
2002 2,255 841 263,619 7,448
2003 2,080 1,596 225,967 11,601
2004 3,809 2,688 388,424 31,132
2005 3,918 2,424 384,365 59,569
2006 3,834 2,129 330,878 36,963
2007 3,795 2,114 339,796 34,384
2008 3,689 1,907 326,048 37,899
2009 3,935 1,930 305,542 33,812
2010 3,808 1,578 301,769 32,609
Commercial
1999 1,009 682 44,991 --
2000 1,034 792 47,844 --
2001 916 809 42,407 --
2002 929 416 41,430 --
2003 1,234 555 19,973 --
2004 1,540 1,243 39,233 --
2005 1,544 1,045 34,172 --
2006 1,539 601 33,112 1
2007 1,566 494 35,987 --
2008 1,652 504 32,813 --
2009 1,481 331 41,275 --
2010 1,406 265 46,324 16
Industrial
1999 16,330 24,718 762,210 219,278
2000 16,325 20,062 745,165 223,441
2001 15,119 16,287 656,071 160,312
2002 14,377 13,555 554,970 139,434
2003 14,406 15,788 475,327 126,236
2004 18,926 21,939 624,443 187,162
2005 18,371 20,940 565,803 178,827
2006 17,854 17,640 578,828 189,501
2007 17,449 17,166 496,796 179,937
2008 16,827 9,605 434,676 165,337
2009 15,091 10,900 469,970 141,859
2010 16,513 8,318 473,683 139,456
[1] Includes anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous and lignite coal. Waste and synthetic coal were included starting in 2002.
[2] Distillate fuel oil (all diesel and No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 fuel oils), residual fuel oil (No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils and bunker C fuel oil), jet fuel, kerosene, petroleum coke (converted to liquid petroleum, see Technical Notes for conversion methodology), and waste oil.
[3] Blast furnace gas, propane gas, and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels.
[4] Electric utility CHP plants are included in Table 4.1 with Electric Generators, Electric Utilities.
Notes:
• Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.
• A new method of allocating fuel consumption between electric power generation and useful thermal output (UTO) was implemented with publication of the preliminary 2008 data, and retroactively applied to 2004-2007 data. The new methodology evenly distributes a combined heat and power (CHP) plant's losses between the two output products (electric power and UTO). In the historical data, UTO was consistently assumed to be 80 percent efficient and all other losses at the plant were allocated to electric power. This change results in the fuel for electric power to be lower while the fuel for UTO is higher than the prior set of data as both are given the same efficiency. This results in the appearance of an increase in efficiency of production of electric power after 2003.
Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-923, "Power Plant Operations Report," and predecessor form(s) including U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-906, "Power Plant Report;" and Form EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report;" Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report.