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Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics

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Table ES1.a. Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics, 2009 and 2008
March
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
	Mar-09	Mar-08	% Change	Mar-09	Mar-08	Mar-09	Mar-08	Mar-09	Mar-08	Mar-09	Mar-08
Net Generation (thousand megawatthours)
Coal[1]	136,625	161,281	-15.3	100,417	117,130	34,887	42,593	91	77	1,231	1,482
Petroleum Liquids[2]	2,016	2,040	-1.2	1,259	1,315	631	593	9	5	118	127
Petroleum Coke	1,308	1,018	28.6	571	465	611	430	1	1	125	122
Natural Gas[3]	68,084	61,654	10.4	24,757	22,261	36,769	32,827	343	353	6,215	6,213
Other Gases[4]	793	1,112	-28.7	6	3	230	343	--	--	557	766
Nuclear	66,920	64,716	3.4	34,856	33,988	32,064	30,728	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Conventional	21,394	21,160	1.1	19,188	18,778	2,017	2,120	11	11	177	251
Other Renewables	12,260	10,651	15.1	1,305	940	8,598	7,239	135	128	2,221	2,343
Wood and Wood-Derived Fuels^[5]	2,985	3,223	-7.4	131	170	681	760	3	3	2,170	2,290
Other Biomass[6]	1,445	1,427	1.3	104	100	1,157	1,150	133	125	51	52
Geothermal	1,254	1,233	1.7	103	90	1,151	1,142	--	--	--	--
Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic[7]	69	70	-2.6	1	2	67	69	--	--	--	--
Wind	6,507	4,697	38.5	965	578	5,542	4,118	--	--	--	--
Hydroelectric Pumped Storage	-315	-553	43	-230	-446	-85	-107	--	--	--	--
Other Energy Sources[8]	939	852	10.2	48	45	532	514	65	59	294	234
All Energy Sources	310,024	323,932	-4.3	182,177	194,479	116,254	117,281	654	634	10,938	11,538
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation
Coal (1000 tons)¹	72,268	83,185	-13.1	52,774	59,749	19,056	22,933	26	24	411	478
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	3,465	3,324	4.3	2,291	2,298	1,029	888	11	9	134	129
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	495	418	18.4	223	211	238	175	*	*	34	31
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	517,498	474,421	9.1	204,077	189,906	268,526	240,443	2,685	2,757	42,211	41,315
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	1,891	2,030	-6.9	--	--	309	344	144	164	1,438	1,522
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	562	687	-18.1	--	--	107	125	16	14	440	548
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	84	87	-3.9	--	--	10	12	1	1	73	73
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	66,860	71,609	-6.6	--	--	26,184	28,673	2,631	2,926	38,045	40,009
Consumption of Fossil Fuels for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output
Coal (1000 tons)¹	74,159	85,215	-13	52,774	59,749	19,365	23,277	170	188	1,849	2,000
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	4,028	4,011	0.4	2,291	2,298	1,136	1,012	27	23	574	677
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	579	505	14.5	223	211	248	188	1	1	107	105
Natural Gas (1000 Mcf)³	584,358	546,030	7	204,077	189,906	294,710	269,116	5,316	5,684	80,256	81,324
Fuel Stocks (end-of-month)
Coal (1000 tons)[9]	179,877	149,388	20.4	137,688	117,676	38,951	29,326	348	360	2,891	2,027
Petroleum Liquids (1000 bbls)²	48,610	45,399	7.1	27,404	27,606	15,581	15,955	493	278	5,132	1,559
Petroleum Coke (1000 tons)	1,216	946	28.5	541	331	225	337	*	*	449	278
Retail Sales, Retail Revenue and Average Retail Price per Kilowatthour
Items	Total U.S. Electric Power Industry
	Retail Sales (Million kWh)[10]			Retail Revenue (Million Dollars)			Average Retail Price (Cents/kWh)
	Mar-09	Mar-08	% Change	Mar-09	Mar-08	% Change	Mar-09	Mar-08	% Change
Residential	106,368	107,007	-0.6	12,100	11,306	7	11.38	10.57	7.7
Commercial[11]	103,818	104,469	-0.6	10,453	10,048	4	10.07	9.62	4.7
Industrial¹¹	71,062	81,372	-12.7	4,862	5,320	-8.6	6.84	6.54	4.6
Transportation¹¹	652	635	2.8	78	68	15.5	12.02	10.7	12.3
All Sectors	281,900	293,483	-3.9	27,493	26,741	2.8	9.75	9.11	7
[1] Anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, waste coal, and coal synfuel. [2] Distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, jet fuel, and kerosene. [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] Anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, coal synfuel, and lignite; excludes waste coal. [10] 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. [11] 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. The new methodology was retroatively applied to 2004-2007. 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 2008 and 2009 are preliminary and 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. Monetary values are expressed in nominal terms. 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."