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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.C. Coal: Consumption for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output,

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	756,226	540,538	197,906	798	16,984
2016	693,958	499,172	179,383	683	14,720
2017	678,578	487,192	177,801	610	12,975
2018	650,027	475,885	161,332	577	12,233
2019	550,017	401,607	136,998	519	10,892
2020	445,753	326,987	108,840	473	9,453
2021	511,669	374,848	126,587	534	9,700
2022	482,931	351,589	121,245	535	9,563
2023	395,989	292,615	94,591	400	8,384
2024	382,831	286,304	87,499	398	8,630
Year 2023
January	36,428	27,518	8,051	51	808
February	27,641	20,107	6,796	44	694
March	29,511	21,349	7,409	39	714
April	23,599	16,243	6,656	36	664
May	26,227	18,677	6,832	28	691
June	34,273	26,228	7,351	22	672
July	45,223	34,692	9,788	26	718
August	44,658	34,186	9,768	26	677
Sept	34,975	26,329	7,948	27	671
October	30,313	22,111	7,507	27	668
November	30,308	21,231	8,353	34	691
December	32,833	23,945	8,131	39	718
Year 2024
January	43,324	32,573	9,917	54	780
February	26,700	20,262	5,700	39	698
March	23,151	17,612	4,711	36	792
April	21,978	15,864	5,425	30	659
May	26,929	20,076	6,177	19	658
June	35,182	26,920	7,544	29	689
July	41,276	31,357	9,162	31	726
August	40,239	30,228	9,243	32	736
Sept	32,355	24,153	7,487	31	683
October	28,205	20,395	7,070	29	711
November	27,243	19,822	6,648	32	740
December	36,248	27,041	8,416	35	756
Year 2025
January	46,756	34,897	11,004	47	808
Year to Date
2023	36,428	27,518	8,051	51	808
2024	43,324	32,573	9,917	54	780
2025	46,756	34,897	11,004	47	808
Rolling 12 Months Ending in January
2024	402,885	297,670	96,456	402	8,357
2025	386,262	288,628	88,586	391	8,657

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.