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Waste Energy Consumption by Type and Energy Use Sector                                          
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Table 7. Waste Energy Consumption by Type and Energy Use Sector, 2005
(Trillion Btu)
Type Sector
Commercial Industrial Electric Power Total
Electric Utilities Independent Power Producers
Total 54 182 19 322 577
MSW and Landfill Gas 47 93 14 293 447
  MSW 44 12 8 234 299
  Landfill Gas 3 81 6 59 148
Other Biomassa 7 90 5 28 130
aAgriculture byproducts/crops, sludge waste, tires, and other biomass solids, liquids and gases.
MSW = Municipal Solid Waste
Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.
Sources: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-906, " Power Plant Report," Form EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report,"  and Government Advisory Associates, Resource Recovery Yearbook  and Methane Recovery Yearbook; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Landfill Methane Outreach Program estimates; and analysis conducted by the Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels.