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Data for January 2025 Release Date: March 25, 2025 Next Release Date: April 24, 2025 Full report PDF Re-release date March 31, 2025 (Revision Notice)

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Table 2.1.A. Coal: Consumption for Electricity Generation,

by Sector, 2015-January 2025 (Thousand Tons)

		Electric Power Sector
Period	Total (all sectors)	Electric Utilities	Independent Power Producers	Commercial Sector	Industrial Sector
Annual Totals
2015	739,594	539,506	195,927	163	3,999
2016	677,371	496,192	178,047	111	3,021
2017	663,911	484,389	176,643	95	2,783
2018	636,213	473,617	159,976	87	2,534
2019	537,620	399,545	135,838	76	2,161
2020	435,351	325,352	108,125	72	1,802
2021	500,367	372,694	125,920	87	1,666
2022	471,576	349,320	120,514	87	1,655
2023	386,626	291,034	94,063	69	1,460
2024	373,454	284,829	87,071	67	1,487
Year 2023
January	35,506	27,360	7,998	9	138
February	26,854	19,980	6,749	8	118
March	28,671	21,207	7,345	6	114
April	22,889	16,155	6,616	7	111
May	25,484	18,557	6,799	6	122
June	33,541	26,111	7,308	3	120
July	44,412	34,525	9,752	4	131
August	43,887	34,029	9,730	4	123
Sept	34,223	26,184	7,913	5	121
October	29,580	21,997	7,460	6	117
November	29,549	21,115	8,310	6	117
December	32,031	23,814	8,083	7	127
Year 2024
January	42,428	32,416	9,872	10	130
February	25,926	20,136	5,662	7	121
March	22,274	17,482	4,654	7	132
April	21,253	15,750	5,397	4	102
May	26,227	19,967	6,139	3	118
June	34,450	26,811	7,512	4	122
July	40,501	31,227	9,135	5	133
August	39,427	30,081	9,209	6	131
Sept	31,629	24,035	7,465	6	123
October	27,462	20,296	7,038	5	124
November	26,455	19,721	6,609	5	119
December	35,423	26,908	8,378	6	131
Year 2025
January	45,855	34,734	10,970	8	143
Year to Date
2023	35,506	27,360	7,998	9	138
2024	42,428	32,416	9,872	10	130
2025	45,855	34,734	10,970	8	143
Rolling 12 Months Ending in January
2024	393,548	296,090	95,937	70	1,451
2025	376,881	287,147	88,169	65	1,499

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 retroactively applied to 2004-2007 data. See the Technical Notes (Appendix C) for further information. See Glossary for definitions.
Values for 2023 and prior years are final. Values for 2024 and 2025 are preliminary. See Technical Notes for a discussion of the sample design for the Form EIA-923 and predecessor forms.
Coal includes anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, and waste coal; synthetic coal and refined coal; and beginning in 2011, coal-derived synthesis gas. Prior to 2011 coal-derived synthesis gas was included in Other Fossil Gas.
See the Technical Notes for fuel conversion factors.
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.
Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-906, Power Plant Report; U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-920 Combined Heat and Power Plant Report, and predecessor forms.
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.