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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 2.7.B. Wood / Wood Waste Biomass: Consumption for Useful Thermal Output,
by Sector, 2015-March 2025 (Billion Btus)

  Electric Power Sector  
Period Total (all sectors) Electric Utilities Independent
Power Producers		 Commercial
Sector		 Industrial
Sector
Annual Totals
2015 943,962 9,351 19,200 3,714 911,697
2016 969,841 10,950 22,905 4,520 931,465
2017 939,633 11,656 22,986 4,522 900,469
2018 929,365 10,297 21,623 4,806 892,639
2019 907,420 3,564 25,740 4,969 873,147
2020 860,062 3,051 25,022 3,595 828,394
2021 870,986 3,520 21,804 2,958 842,704
2022 819,538 4,629 21,579 3,158 790,172
2023 754,615 4,076 20,744 2,343 727,452
2024 735,979 4,085 17,309 2,295 712,291
Year 2023
January 69,277 456 1,721 249 66,851
February 60,917 377 1,949 163 58,427
March 66,831 438 2,692 223 63,478
April 59,109 391 1,725 162 56,830
May 63,132 91 1,803 81 61,157
June 58,285 266 1,869 254 55,897
July 61,598 295 1,451 129 59,723
August 62,979 339 1,215 221 61,204
Sept 60,896 182 866 256 59,592
October 61,213 344 2,393 185 58,292
November 64,741 433 1,506 179 62,623
December 65,636 464 1,555 241 63,377
Year 2024
January 63,745 352 1,594 285 61,515
February 56,762 294 1,344 138 54,986
March 62,874 371 1,370 75 61,058
April 61,905 269 1,451 65 60,119
May 61,309 386 1,294 147 59,482
June 56,639 336 1,304 223 54,777
July 59,856 325 1,681 318 57,532
August 63,599 334 1,487 185 61,593
Sept 62,925 372 1,535 233 60,785
October 58,602 307 1,350 150 56,795
November 63,355 380 1,390 218 61,368
December 64,408 359 1,510 259 62,280
Year 2025
January 62,677 371 1,584 247 60,475
February 55,246 322 1,266 234 53,425
March 61,741 336 1,499 157 59,748
Year to Date
2023 197,025 1,271 6,362 635 188,757
2024 183,382 1,017 4,308 498 177,560
2025 179,664 1,029 4,350 638 173,648
Rolling 12 Months Ending in March
2024 740,972 3,822 18,690 2,205 716,255
2025 732,261 4,097 17,351 2,435 708,379

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.
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.