| Retail Power Purchases by End-Use Sector, 1996 (billion kilowatthours) |
- The retail market encompasses electricity generated, transmitted, and distributed to ultimate consumers. Retail electricity consumers are grouped into four end-use sectors: residential, commercial, industrial, and other.
- The Residential Sector includes private households and apartment buildings, where energy is consumed primarily for space heating, water heating, air conditioning, lighting, refrigeration, cooking, and clothes drying.
- The Commercial Sector includes nonmanufacturing business establishments, such as hotels, motels, restaurants, wholesale businesses, retail stores, and health, social, and educational institutions.
- The Industrial Sector includes manufacturing, construction, mining, agriculture, fishing, and forestry establishments.
- Other includes public street and highway lighting, transportation, municipalities, divisions or agencies of State and Federal governments under special contracts or agreements, and other utility departments as defined by the pertinent regulatory agency and/or electric utility.
|
|
(million kWh) |
(million dollars) |
(cents) |
|
Residential |
1,082,491 |
90,501 |
8.36 |
|
Commercial |
887,425 |
67,827 |
7.64 |
|
Industrial |
1,030,356 |
47,385 |
4.60 |
|
Other |
97,539 |
6,741 |
6.91 |
All Sectors |
3,097,810 |
212,455 |
6.86 |