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Data for August 2025 Release Date: October 24, 2025 Next Release Date: November 25, 2025 Full report PDF
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Table 2.1.C. Coal: Consumption for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2015-August 2025 (Thousand Tons)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2015 756,226 540,538 197,906 798 16,984
2016 693,958 499,172 179,383 683 14,720
2017 678,578 487,192 177,801 610 12,975
2018 650,027 475,885 161,332 577 12,233
2019 550,017 401,607 136,998 519 10,892
2020 445,753 326,987 108,840 473 9,453
2021 511,669 374,848 126,587 534 9,700
2022 482,931 351,589 121,245 535 9,563
2023 395,989 292,615 94,591 400 8,384
2024 381,814 286,334 86,924 422 8,134
Year 2023
January 36,428 27,518 8,051 51 808
February 27,641 20,107 6,796 44 694
March 29,511 21,349 7,409 39 714
April 23,599 16,243 6,656 36 664
May 26,227 18,677 6,832 28 691
June 34,273 26,228 7,351 22 672
July 45,223 34,692 9,788 26 718
August 44,658 34,186 9,768 26 677
Sept 34,975 26,329 7,948 27 671
October 30,313 22,111 7,507 27 668
November 30,308 21,231 8,353 34 691
December 32,833 23,945 8,131 39 718
Year 2024
January 43,320 32,601 9,861 63 794
February 26,736 20,278 5,739 47 671
March 23,193 17,623 4,800 37 733
April 21,907 15,835 5,446 31 595
May 26,850 20,063 6,135 19 632
June 35,096 26,987 7,460 26 622
July 41,183 31,375 9,096 28 684
August 40,091 30,240 9,157 31 664
Sept 32,184 24,134 7,367 31 652
October 28,002 20,382 6,926 31 663
November 27,066 19,795 6,541 37 692
December 36,188 27,021 8,396 41 731
Year 2025
January 46,743 34,894 11,035 49 765
February 35,937 26,853 8,370 42 671
March 28,803 21,278 6,744 38 743
April 26,578 19,669 6,192 32 685
May 28,541 21,329 6,602 30 581
June 37,213 27,963 8,600 26 624
July 45,847 34,921 10,219 34 673
August 40,400 30,791 8,931 32 646
Year to Date
2023 267,559 198,999 62,652 272 5,636
2024 258,374 195,002 57,694 282 5,396
2025 290,062 217,699 66,693 283 5,387
Rolling 12 Months Ending in August
2024 386,804 288,618 89,633 409 8,144
2025 413,502 309,031 95,923 422 8,126

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 2024 and prior years are final. Values for 2025 are preliminary. See Technical Notes for a discussion of the sample design for the Form EIA-923 and predecessor forms.
Coal includes anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, and waste coal; synthetic coal and refined coal; and beginning in 2011, coal-derived synthesis gas. Prior to 2011 coal-derived synthesis gas 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.