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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.C. Petroleum Coke: Consumption for Electricity Generation and 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 5,188 3,128 779 18 1,263
2016 5,352 3,433 705 10 1,204
2017 4,467 2,742 657 17 1,050
2018 4,552 2,752 797 12 991
2019 3,563 2,083 571 7 900
2020 3,856 2,276 782 4 795
2021 3,830 2,344 731 7 748
2022 3,702 2,294 671 16 721
2023 2,649 1,336 709 4 600
2024 2,013 962 509 6 536
Year 2023
January 228 116 62 2 48
February 201 108 57 0.37 35
March 195 75 60 0.25 59
April 175 77 51 0 48
May 200 76 70 0 54
June 213 107 57 0 49
July 318 197 69 0 52
August 321 197 69 0 54
Sept 290 175 66 0 49
October 178 76 49 0 53
November 129 49 32 0 49
December 200 81 67 1 50
Year 2024
January 197 95 50 2 50
February 152 69 47 1 35
March 99 22 43 0 35
April 147 66 36 0 45
May 165 78 43 1 44
June 218 115 54 1 48
July 235 131 54 0 49
August 233 128 55 0 51
Sept 150 70 39 0 41
October 120 72 NM 0 43
November 124 44 34 0 46
December 173 72 50 1 50
Year 2025
January 273 166 58 2 47
February 169 94 38 2 35
March 190 97 52 0 41
Year to Date
2023 624 300 179 2 143
2024 449 186 140 2 121
2025 632 356 149 4 123
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 2,474 1,222 670 4 578
2025 2,196 1,132 NM 8 538

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.