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Table 21. Electric Operation and Maintenance Expenses for Major U.S. Publicly Owned Nongenerator Electric Utilities, 1996-2000
(Thousand Dollars)
Item 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Production Expenses          
  Steam Power Generation 4,775 3,400 54 780 3,419
  Nuclear Power Generation - - - - -
  Hydraulic Power Generation 95 7 98 - 29
  Other Power Generation 2,415 1,580 2,636 702 15,768
  Purchased Power 7,454,644 6,995,953 6,648,351 6,233,251 6,512,318
  Other Production Expenses 26,721 20,485 19,936 20,667 63,598
    Total Production Expenses 7,488,588 7,017,840 6,670,378 6,252,259 6,592,479
  Transmission Expenses 71,095 54,624 50,489 67,388 62,802
  Distribution Expenses 555,852 523,596 486,894 634,010 467,954
  Customer Accounts Expenses 154,555 142,717 130,445 139,597 141,818
  Customer Service and Information Expenses 22,343 22,182 20,862 16,551 18,279
  Sales Expenses 16,122 13,878 8,894 12,943 11,667
  Administrative and General Expenses 401,667 371,133 345,318 348,051 326,277
    Total Electric Operation and Maintenance Expenses 8,710,121 8,145,877 7,713,165 7,454,924 7,621,183
Fuel Expenses in Operation          
  Steam Power Generation 19 7 0 190 1,316
  Nuclear Power Generation - - - - -
  Other Power Generation 452 0 83 61 240
Number of Elec Dept Employees1          
  Regular Full-time 14,874 14,972 6,366 13,986 14,696
  Part-time & Temporary 344 340 284 370 345
      Total Elec Dept Employees 15,218 15,312 6,650 14,356 15,041


1/ Number of employees were not submitted by some publicly owned electric utilities because the number of electric utility employees could not be separated from the other employees within the municipal or the electric utility outsourced much of the work. Note: Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.  Detailed data are provided in Table 23.  The number of publicly owned nongenerating electric utilities for end of period is 281 for 2000, 267 for 1999, 260 for 1998, 299 for 1997, and 284 for 1996.
       Source: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-412, "Annual Report of Public Electric Utilities." Individual electric utilities report fiscal year data.  Appendix B shows the fiscal year for each electric utility.