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Table 5.2.B. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2014 - 2024 (Thousand Barrels)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2014 3,099 64 1,170 216 1,650
2015 3,142 62 1,155 282 1,643
2016 2,277 68 245 245 1,719
2017 2,012 72 220 238 1,482
2018 2,614 103 354 350 1,807
2019 2,162 71 226 419 1,446
2020 1,730 59 179 269 1,223
2021 2,072 80 278 330 1,384
2022 4,181 106 403 495 3,177
2023 3,133 65 330 363 2,374
2024 2,238 66 612 440 1,120
Year 2022
January 425 28 68 114 214
February 239 14 18 30 177
March 336 6 35 33 263
April 335 4 27 26 277
May 310 5 27 34 244
June 345 5 28 18 294
July 360 5 25 38 292
August 243 3 27 30 183
September 302 4 28 10 259
October 317 5 32 14 266
November 310 4 33 16 257
December 659 21 55 131 451
Year 2023
January 406 6 35 62 303
February 373 9 29 30 305
March 326 4 26 25 271
April 329 5 29 8 288
May 163 7 26 10 120
June 166 5 26 16 120
July 174 5 25 16 129
August 204 5 23 16 161
September 207 3 25 20 158
October 193 6 32 17 137
November 247 5 25 37 181
December 344 5 29 107 203
Year 2024
January 324 18 59 87 160
February 170 3 23 45 98
March 189 4 26 63 96
April 215 6 75 41 94
May 191 4 51 59 77
June 199 5 38 86 69
July 182 4 93 6 79
August 128 5 52 5 67
September 104 3 24 5 72
October 144 5 34 7 98
November 142 5 37 12 89
December 251 4 101 24 122

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 are final. 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 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.

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