Annual Energy Review

September 2012  PDF | previous editions
Release Date: September 27, 2012

Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector, 2011 (Quadrillion Btu)

Footnotes:
¹ Does not include biofuels that have been blended with petroleum–biofuels are included in "Renewable Energy."
² Excludes supplemental gaseous fuels.
³ Includes less than 0.1 quadrillion Btu of coal coke net exports.
⁴ Conventional hydroelectric power, geothermal, solar/PV, wind, and biomass.
⁵ Includes industrial combined-heat-and-power (CHP) and industrial electricity-only plants.
⁶ Includes commercial combined-heat-and-power (CHP) and commercial electricity-only plants.
⁷ Electricity-only and combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants whose primary business is to sell electricity, or electricity and heat, to the public. Includes 0.1 quadrillion Btu of electricity net imports not shown under "Source."

Notes:
Primary energy in the form that it is first accounted for in a statistical energy balance, before any transformation to secondary or tertiary forms of energy (for example, coal is used to generate electricity).  • Sum of components may not equal total due to independent rounding.

Sources:
U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2011, Tables 1.3, 2.1b-2.1f , 10.3, and 10.4.