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Posted November 6, 2020 Today in Energy

U.S. power customers experienced an average of nearly five hours of interruptions in 2019 ›

Interruptions in electricity service to customers vary in frequency and duration across the nearly 3,000 electric distribution systems that serve about 155 million customers in the United States. In 2019, U.S. customers experienced an average of 3.2 hours of interruptions during major events and 1.5 hours of interruptions without major events, or nearly 5 hours total. More ›

average duration of total annual interruptions in electricity service

Source: EIA, Annual Electric Power Industry Report

Data Highlights

WTI crude oil futures price

11/5/2020: $38.79/barrel

up$2.62 from week earlier
down$17.56 from year earlier

Natural gas futures price

11/5/2020: $2.942/MMBtu

down$0.359 from week earlier
up$0.114 from year earlier

Weekly coal production

10/31/2020: 10.363 million tons

up0.187 million tons from week earlier
down2.308 million tons from year earlier

Natural gas inventories

10/30/2020: 3,919 Bcf

down36 Bcf from week earlier
up200 Bcf from year earlier

Crude oil inventories

10/30/2020: 484.4 million barrels

down8.0 million barrels from week earlier
up37.6 million barrels from year earlier

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