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Data for March 2025 Release Date: May 22, 2025 Next Release Date: June 25, 2025 Full report PDF
SAS Output
Table 2.2.B. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2015-March 2025 (Thousand Barrels)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers
Commercial
Sector
Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
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 3,133 65 330 363 2,374
2024 3,184 75 295 421 2,394
Year 2023
January 406 6 35 62 303
February 373 9 29 30 305
March 326 4 26 25 271
April 329 5 29 8 288
May 163 7 26 10 120
June 166 5 26 16 120
July 174 5 25 16 129
August 204 5 23 16 161
Sept 207 3 25 20 158
October 193 6 32 17 137
November 247 5 25 37 181
December 344 5 29 107 203
Year 2024
January 472 20 26 87 340
February 260 4 19 43 193
March 285 4 22 64 196
April 262 6 20 42 194
May 290 5 24 61 201
June 304 5 26 67 206
July 180 5 24 NM 144
August 187 6 21 6 154
Sept 183 4 19 6 154
October 208 6 31 8 164
November 246 4 30 11 201
December 307 6 35 NM 246
Year 2025
January 383 10 57 NM 281
February 308 10 60 NM 219
March 238 4 16 16 203
Year to Date
2023 1,105 19 90 117 878
2024 1,017 28 66 194 729
2025 929 23 133 NM 703
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 3,045 74 306 440 2,226
2025 3,096 70 361 NM 2,368

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.
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.