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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.B. Coal: Consumption for Useful Thermal Output,
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 16,632 1,032 1,980 635 12,985
2016 16,586 2,979 1,336 572 11,700
2017 14,667 2,802 1,158 515 10,192
2018 13,813 2,268 1,356 490 9,700
2019 12,397 2,062 1,161 443 8,731
2020 10,402 1,635 715 401 7,651
2021 11,301 2,153 667 447 8,034
2022 11,356 2,269 731 448 7,908
2023 9,363 1,580 527 331 6,925
2024 9,377 1,474 428 331 7,143
Year 2023
January 922 157 53 43 669
February 787 127 47 37 576
March 839 142 65 33 600
April 710 88 40 29 553
May 744 119 33 22 569
June 731 117 43 20 552
July 811 167 36 21 586
August 771 157 38 22 553
Sept 753 146 34 22 551
October 734 114 47 22 551
November 760 115 43 28 574
December 802 131 48 33 591
Year 2024
January 896 157 45 44 650
February 774 127 38 32 577
March 877 131 57 29 660
April 725 114 28 26 557
May 702 109 38 16 540
June 733 109 32 25 567
July 775 130 26 26 593
August 812 147 34 26 605
Sept 726 118 22 26 561
October 743 99 32 25 587
November 788 102 38 27 621
December 825 132 38 30 625
Year 2025
January 900 163 34 39 665
February 794 138 31 34 592
March 833 113 40 30 650
Year to Date
2023 2,548 426 165 112 1,845
2024 2,548 414 140 105 1,888
2025 2,528 413 105 103 1,907
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 9,363 1,568 503 324 6,968
2025 9,357 1,473 393 329 7,162

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.