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Data for February 2024 Release Date: April 24, 2024 Next Release Date: May 24, 2024 Full report PDF
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Table 2.2.B. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2014-February 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 3,304 71 330 372 2,531
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
Sept 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 388 6 35 57 290
February 288 8 29 26 225
March 350 5 26 27 292
April 278 5 29 NM 234
May 225 8 26 12 178
June 218 6 26 18 169
July 210 5 25 18 162
August 222 5 23 18 176
Sept 222 4 25 21 172
October 238 7 32 19 179
November 267 6 25 38 199
December 398 5 29 109 255
Year 2024
January 508 20 25 86 377
February 274 4 19 44 207
Year to Date
2022 664 42 86 144 392
2023 676 15 64 83 515
2024 783 24 44 130 584
Rolling 12 Months Ending in February
2023 4,193 79 381 434 3,301
2024 3,410 80 310 NM 2,601

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.