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Data for March 2025 Release Date: May 22, 2025 Next Release Date: June 25, 2025 Full report PDF
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Table 2.1.A. Coal: Consumption for Electricity Generation,
by Sector, 2015-March 2025 (Thousand Tons)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2015 739,594 539,506 195,927 163 3,999
2016 677,371 496,192 178,047 111 3,021
2017 663,911 484,389 176,643 95 2,783
2018 636,213 473,617 159,976 87 2,534
2019 537,620 399,545 135,838 76 2,161
2020 435,351 325,352 108,125 72 1,802
2021 500,367 372,694 125,920 87 1,666
2022 471,576 349,320 120,514 87 1,655
2023 386,626 291,034 94,063 69 1,460
2024 373,454 284,829 87,071 67 1,487
Year 2023
January 35,506 27,360 7,998 9 138
February 26,854 19,980 6,749 8 118
March 28,671 21,207 7,345 6 114
April 22,889 16,155 6,616 7 111
May 25,484 18,557 6,799 6 122
June 33,541 26,111 7,308 3 120
July 44,412 34,525 9,752 4 131
August 43,887 34,029 9,730 4 123
Sept 34,223 26,184 7,913 5 121
October 29,580 21,997 7,460 6 117
November 29,549 21,115 8,310 6 117
December 32,031 23,814 8,083 7 127
Year 2024
January 42,428 32,416 9,872 10 130
February 25,926 20,136 5,662 7 121
March 22,274 17,482 4,654 7 132
April 21,253 15,750 5,397 4 102
May 26,227 19,967 6,139 3 118
June 34,450 26,811 7,512 4 122
July 40,501 31,227 9,135 5 133
August 39,427 30,081 9,209 6 131
Sept 31,629 24,035 7,465 6 123
October 27,462 20,296 7,038 5 124
November 26,455 19,721 6,609 5 119
December 35,423 26,908 8,378 6 131
Year 2025
January 45,855 34,734 10,970 8 143
February 35,141 26,706 8,310 7 118
March 27,920 21,136 6,644 5 135
Year to Date
2023 91,032 68,547 22,092 23 370
2024 90,627 70,034 20,188 23 383
2025 108,916 82,576 25,924 21 395
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 386,222 292,521 92,159 70 1,472
2025 391,743 297,372 92,807 64 1,499

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 2023 and prior years are final. Values for 2024 and 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.