The forest products industry spent $7.7 billion on purchased energy in 1994, more than 11% of total U.S. manufacturing energy expenditures. Of this amount, about $6 billion was spent by the pulp and paper industry and $1.7 billion by the lumber and wood products industry. Electricity purchases represent the largest share of energy costs, almost half of the pulp and paper industry’s energy expenditures and over half of lumber and wood products’ purchases in 1994. [MECS 1994]