Table 7.7 Receipts, Average Cost, and Quality of Fossil Fuels: Independent Power Producers, 2002 - 2011

  Coal Petroleum Liquids
  Receipts Average Cost   Receipts Average Cost  


Period		 (Billion
Btu)		 (Thousand
Tons)		 (Dollars
per
MMBtu)		 (Dollars
per
Ton)		 Average Sulfur Percent by Weight Percentage of
Consumption		 (Billion
Btu)		 (Thousand
Barrels)		 (Dollars
per
MMBtu)		 (Dollars
per
Barrel)		 Average Sulfur Percent by Weight Percentage of
Consumption
Annual Totals
2002 3,710,847 182,482 1.37 27.96 1.15 87.0 186,271 30,043 4.19 25.98 0.61 76.4
2003 4,365,996 223,984 1.34 26.20 1.15 90.4 347,546 56,138 5.41 33.50 0.58 89.7
2004 4,410,775 227,700 1.41 27.27 1.13 93.3 337,011 54,152 5.35 33.31 0.61 93.6
2005 4,459,333 229,071 1.56 30.39 1.10 83.0 381,871 61,753 8.30 51.34 0.54 97.2
2006 5,204,402 266,856 1.69 33.04 1.09 97.7 117,524 19,236 9.65 58.98 0.45 104.9
2007 5,275,454 273,216 1.71 33.11 1.06 97.5 125,025 20,486 10.49 64.01 0.45 85.0
2008 5,395,142 281,258 2.03 38.98 1.04 100.4 82,124 13,657 16.30 98.03 0.41 94.4
2009 4,563,080 240,687 2.11 39.94 1.06 101.1 68,030 11,408 10.02 59.76 0.37 102.0
2010 4,555,898 243,585 2.20 41.15 1.21 96.0 49,598 8,420 14.80 87.19 0.35 89.9
2011 4,292,284 233,295 2.28 41.95 1.25 95.9 41,599 7,096 20.30 119.01 0.50 106.9
2009
January 446,449 23,567 2.12 40.16 1.00 97.8 19,583 3,223 8.25 50.12 0.40 83.5
February 417,710 21,834 2.15 41.04 1.02 110.0 11,257 1,851 7.77 47.23 0.43 156.2
March 427,194 22,100 2.21 42.73 1.09 117.0 8,872 1,474 8.25 49.68 0.44 130.7
April 358,734 18,683 2.09 40.17 1.10 106.5 2,928 505 10.48 60.72 0.28 99.9
May 377,550 19,715 2.14 41.01 1.10 110.8 2,295 402 10.19 58.15 0.30 74.4
June 355,973 18,831 2.09 39.47 1.10 98.5 3,082 527 11.54 67.43 0.28 106.3
July 368,865 19,773 2.10 39.11 1.00 93.4 2,438 421 12.65 73.25 0.29 70.7
August 393,511 20,796 2.08 39.31 1.07 95.1 3,716 629 13.25 78.32 0.30 66.3
September 352,252 18,832 2.09 39.09 1.03 106.7 2,444 422 15.18 87.88 0.33 101.0
October 341,134 18,223 2.06 38.52 1.04 96.3 2,450 423 13.94 80.80 0.32 88.4
November 352,701 18,574 2.06 39.03 1.10 101.5 3,768 665 12.98 73.50 0.25 149.0
December 371,008 19,758 2.07 38.92 1.05 86.7 5,196 866 13.41 80.51 0.38 150.1
2010
January 376,680 19,830 2.21 42.01 1.20 85.3 5,186 895 14.92 86.41 0.30 75.4
February 343,015 18,198 2.21 41.75 1.18 88.3 2,397 416 14.78 85.23 0.30 78.2
March 401,656 21,348 2.23 41.96 1.20 107.5 4,487 747 13.69 82.23 0.55 201.3
April 359,489 19,062 2.23 41.96 1.25 113.2 2,017 354 15.12 86.17 0.30 90.2
May 374,626 19,964 2.19 41.15 1.28 106.5 2,963 508 15.27 89.08 0.36 86.2
June 342,601 18,471 2.19 40.68 1.22 83.4 4,357 738 14.22 83.97 0.33 87.9
July 370,780 20,113 2.23 41.09 1.12 81.8 6,753 1,125 13.66 81.95 0.41 67.0
August 414,300 21,970 2.23 42.11 1.25 90.1 4,622 777 14.55 86.52 0.27 75.1
September 404,409 21,646 2.20 41.04 1.23 103.2 4,031 678 13.97 83.02 0.31 95.5
October 412,301 22,106 2.15 40.10 1.23 115.5 3,720 626 15.45 91.85 0.35 135.1
November 387,870 20,899 2.15 39.94 1.19 106.9 3,898 679 16.19 92.92 0.36 120.4
December 368,173 19,977 2.18 40.13 1.18 84.9 5,167 876 16.62 97.98 0.31 87.6
2011
January 381,239 20,717 2.23 40.96 1.20 86.5 4,653 783 17.44 103.58 0.56 71.2
February 336,384 18,030 2.26 42.18 1.29 94.7 3,276 560 18.64 108.99 0.77 118.7
March 363,257 19,787 2.26 41.58 1.19 107.9 2,270 392 21.18 122.73 0.55 92.1
April 330,831 17,944 2.28 42.03 1.21 102.6 3,235 550 21.43 126.18 0.27 144.8
May 348,283 18,569 2.32 43.58 1.33 101.0 2,752 466 21.66 127.89 0.59 108.5
June 330,390 17,898 2.34 43.25 1.23 84.4 3,232 553 20.81 121.69 0.48 87.0
July 351,423 19,120 2.35 43.14 1.24 79.4 5,604 955 21.18 124.33 0.40 91.4
August 386,958 20,994 2.34 43.11 1.26 87.9 2,883 497 16.66 96.71 0.49 86.7
September 377,183 20,755 2.31 42.04 1.25 100.2 2,674 462 22.29 129.10 0.53 107.1
October 379,229 20,611 2.25 41.35 1.27 109.6 3,946 655 20.28 122.12 0.52 178.5
November 357,960 19,649 2.24 40.77 1.24 108.9 3,617 635 20.57 117.22 0.44 175.8
December 349,148 19,221 2.18 39.64 1.23 100.0 3,457 589 22.35 131.11 0.47 140.6

* = Value is less than half of the smallest unit of measure. (e.g., for values with no decimals, the smallest unit is 1 then values under 0.5 are shown as *.)
NM = Not meaningful due to large relative standard error or excessive percentage change.
W = Withheld to avoid disclosure of individual company data.

Notes:
See Glossary for definitions.
Values are final.
See Technical Notes for a discussion of the sample design for the Form EIA-923 and predecessor forms.
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.
Coal includes anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, and waste coal; coal synfuel and refined coal; and beginning in 2011, coal-derived synthesis gas. Prior to 2011 coal-derived synthesis gas was included in Other Gases.
Petroleum Liquids includes distillate and residual fuel oils, jet fuel, kerosene, waste oil, and beginning in 2011, propane. Prior to 2011 propane was included in Other Gases.
See the Technical Notes for fuel conversion factors.

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-923, "Power Plant Operations Report" and predecessor form(s) including Form EIA-423, "Monthly Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report" and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), FERC Form 423, "Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants"