Electric Power Monthly

Data for March 2025 Release Date: May 22, 2025 Next Release Date: June 25, 2025 Full report PDF

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Table 2.2.C. Petroleum Liquids: Consumption for Electricity Generation and 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	32,067	18,624	10,629	531	2,283
2016	24,682	16,205	5,869	352	2,255
2017	23,708	15,640	5,681	429	1,958
2018	31,228	18,448	9,820	619	2,341
2019	22,998	15,748	4,690	670	1,890
2020	19,738	13,972	3,626	507	1,633
2021	23,705	16,929	4,379	580	1,816
2022	32,940	18,480	9,877	749	3,835
2023	24,468	16,431	4,583	563	2,891
2024	25,662	17,074	5,096	605	2,887
Year 2023
January	2,227	1,460	318	86	363
February	2,805	1,566	820	66	352
March	2,003	1,309	329	41	324
April	1,934	1,267	321	18	328
May	1,852	1,355	317	25	155
June	1,846	1,374	281	27	163
July	1,952	1,323	430	29	170
August	1,993	1,450	312	29	202
Sept	1,872	1,280	364	32	197
October	2,018	1,357	456	30	174
November	1,918	1,319	329	52	219
December	2,049	1,371	306	127	245
Year 2024
January	3,510	2,205	797	114	395
February	1,729	1,203	223	57	245
March	1,795	1,201	280	81	233
April	2,275	1,417	561	61	237
May	2,022	1,340	360	80	242
June	2,030	1,298	398	89	245
July	2,060	1,343	516	NM	184
August	2,100	1,524	367	17	192
Sept	1,781	1,307	270	14	190
October	1,940	1,416	308	16	198
November	1,880	1,295	325	22	239
December	2,541	1,526	692	NM	288
Year 2025
January	5,337	2,535	2,402	NM	340
February	2,452	1,508	651	NM	260
March	1,854	1,318	269	25	242
Year to Date
2023	7,035	4,335	1,467	193	1,040
2024	7,034	4,609	1,299	253	873
2025	9,643	5,361	3,322	NM	842
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024	24,468	16,705	4,415	623	2,725
2025	28,271	17,827	7,118	NM	2,856

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.