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With Data for 2025 Release Date: October 21, 2026 Next Release: October 2027
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Table 5.2.C. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2015 - 2025 (Thousand Barrels)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2015 32,067 18,624 10,629 531 2,283
2016 24,682 16,205 5,869 352 2,255
2017 23,708 15,640 5,681 429 1,958
2018 31,228 18,448 9,820 619 2,341
2019 22,998 15,748 4,690 670 1,890
2020 19,738 13,972 3,626 507 1,633
2021 23,705 16,929 4,379 580 1,816
2022 32,940 18,480 9,877 749 3,835
2023 24,468 16,431 4,583 563 2,891
2024 23,025 16,124 4,748 619 1,534
2025 28,058 17,854 8,450 320 1,434
Year 2023
January 2,227 1,460 318 86 363
February 2,805 1,566 820 66 352
March 2,003 1,309 329 41 324
April 1,934 1,267 321 18 328
May 1,852 1,355 317 25 155
June 1,846 1,374 281 27 163
July 1,952 1,323 430 29 170
August 1,993 1,450 312 29 202
September 1,872 1,280 364 32 197
October 2,018 1,357 456 30 174
November 1,918 1,319 329 52 219
December 2,049 1,371 306 127 245
Year 2024
January 3,081 2,009 749 117 207
February 1,555 1,146 206 60 144
March 1,609 1,158 239 81 130
April 1,807 1,235 386 58 129
May 1,767 1,256 325 77 109
June 1,812 1,230 373 109 101
July 2,014 1,328 561 14 111
August 1,941 1,452 378 14 97
September 1,589 1,235 242 11 100
October 1,795 1,369 282 14 130
November 1,677 1,246 289 22 119
December 2,379 1,459 721 42 157
Year 2025
January 5,193 2,259 2,660 66 208
February 2,645 1,473 1,011 NM 128
March 1,712 1,311 259 23 119
April 1,663 1,220 314 15 115
May 1,568 1,141 290 38 98
June 2,188 1,433 613 17 125
July 2,315 1,474 721 12 109
August 2,042 1,417 471 36 118
September 1,727 1,341 293 13 80
October 1,799 1,377 293 13 116
November 1,837 1,388 350 17 81
December 3,370 2,019 1,177 37 137

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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