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Data for January 2024 Release Date: March 26, 2024 Next Release Date: April 24, 2024 Full report PDF
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Table 2.2.A. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Electricity Generation,
by Sector, 2014-January 2024 (Thousand Barrels)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2014 31,531 19,652 10,689 451 739
2015 28,925 18,562 9,473 249 641
2016 22,405 16,137 5,624 108 536
2017 21,696 15,567 5,461 191 476
2018 28,614 18,345 9,467 269 534
2019 20,836 15,677 4,464 251 444
2020 18,008 13,913 3,447 238 410
2021 21,633 16,850 4,102 250 432
2022 28,760 18,375 9,474 254 657
2023 20,712 15,679 4,303 186 546
Year 2022
January 5,217 2,325 2,794 44 54
February 2,067 1,239 768 16 43
March 1,732 1,304 365 14 48
April 1,408 1,098 250 17 43
May 1,588 1,275 252 20 42
June 1,704 1,286 351 20 46
July 2,020 1,375 576 21 48
August 1,896 1,301 537 19 39
Sept 1,738 1,341 335 12 49
October 1,814 1,370 387 14 43
November 1,700 1,339 304 15 42
December 5,876 3,121 2,553 42 160
Year 2023
January 1,789 1,405 303 21 59
February 2,003 1,292 651 17 43
March 1,713 1,280 365 16 52
April 1,578 1,214 307 NM 46
May 1,699 1,284 358 16 42
June 1,610 1,291 258 12 49
July 1,687 1,234 393 14 46
August 1,754 1,387 307 15 45
Sept 1,643 1,231 361 13 39
October 1,735 1,329 350 14 42
November 1,723 1,335 330 16 42
December 1,779 1,396 320 22 41
Year 2024
January 2,782 1,992 710 24 56
Year to Date
2022 5,217 2,325 2,794 44 54
2023 1,789 1,405 303 21 59
2024 2,782 1,992 710 24 56
Rolling 12 Months Ending in January
2023 25,331 17,455 6,982 231 663
2024 21,706 16,265 4,710 NM 543

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 2022 and prior years are final. Values for 2023 and 2024 are preliminary. See Technical Notes for a discussion of the sample design for the Form EIA-923 and predecessor forms.
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.
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.