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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 2.3.B. Petroleum Coke: 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 1,144 9 109 16 1,010
2016 1,099 6 113 9 971
2017 977 11 115 15 836
2018 929 12 93 10 814
2019 839 17 93 6 724
2020 780 16 124 3 637
2021 760 21 113 6 621
2022 718 23 92 13 589
2023 622 8 115 3 495
2024 552 2 95 5 450
Year 2023
January 49 1 9 1 37
February 38 1 10 0.30 26
March 60 2 10 0.20 47
April 52 2 8 0 41
May 56 0 10 0 46
June 51 0.07 10 0 41
July 52 1 10 0 41
August 56 1 10 0 45
Sept 53 0.30 11 0 41
October 53 0.11 8 0 45
November 49 0 8 0 41
December 53 0.11 10 1 41
Year 2024
January 59 0.23 14 1 43
February 38 0 8 1 30
March 36 0 8 0 28
April 43 0 5 0 38
May 47 2 7 1 37
June 49 0 8 1 40
July 50 0 9 0 41
August 53 0 9 0 43
Sept 42 0 7 0 35
October 40 0 NM 0 36
November 44 0 7 0 37
December 51 0 9 1 41
Year 2025
January 50 0.04 8 2 40
February 39 0.02 8 1 29
March 44 0 9 0 35
Year to Date
2023 147 4 30 2 111
2024 133 0.23 30 2 101
2025 133 0.06 25 3 104
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 608 5 115 3 485
2025 552 2 NM 7 453

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 Coke includes petroleum coke-derived synthesis gas. Prior to 2011, petroleum coke-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.