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Release Date: September 27, 2012

Table 8.6c Estimated Consumption of Combustible Fuels for Useful Thermal Output at Combined-Heat-and-Power Plants: Commercial and Industrial Sectors, 1989-2011 (Subset of Table 8.6a)
Table 8.6c  Estimated Consumption of Combustible Fuels for Useful Thermal Output
                    at Combined-Heat-and-Power Plants:  Commercial and Industrial Sectors, 1989-2011  (Subset of Table 8.6a)





Year

Coal 1		 Petroleum

Natural Gas 6

Other Gases 7		 Biomass

Other 10
Distillate Fuel Oil 2 Residual Fuel Oil 3 Other Liquids 4 Petroleum Coke 5 Total 5 Wood 8 Waste 9
Thousand
Short Tons
Thousand Barrels		 Thousand
Short Tons		 Thousand
Barrels		 Million
Cubic Feet		 Trillion
Btu
Trillion Btu		 Trillion
Btu
  Commercial Sector 11
1989 711 202 601 – – 803 12,049 (s) (s) 13 –
1990 773 389 715 (s) – 1,104 18,913 (s) (s) 13 –
1991 826 356 405 (s) – 761 25,295 (s) (s) 11 (s)
1992 804 259 538 (s) 2 807 29,672 (s) 1 16 (s)
1993 968 272 548 2 4 843 27,738 (s) (s) 17 (s)
1994 940 534 379 – 4 931 31,457 (s) (s) 17 –
1995 850 319 261 (s) 3 596 34,964 – (s) 19 (s)
1996 1,005 260 328 (s) 3 601 40,075 – 1 22 (s)
1997 1,108 470 309 – 3 794 47,941 (s) 1 24 –
1998 1,002 418 573 – 3 1,006 46,527 (s) 1 22 –
1999 1,009 254 412 – 3 682 44,991 – 1 21 –
2000 1,034 403 366 2 4 792 47,844 – 1 21 –
2001 916 505 304 – – 809 42,407 – 1 10 7
2002 929 248 108 28 6 416 41,430 – 1 8 6
2003 1,234 119 381 12 9 555 19,973 – 1 10 8
2004 1,540 570 613 20 8 1,243 39,233 – 1 15 11
2005 1,544 417 587 (s) 8 1,045 34,172 – 1 14 10
2006 1,539 155 404 – 9 601 33,112 (s) 1 16 10
2007 1,566 101 340 – 11 494 35,987 – 2 12 7
2008 1,652 287 173 – 9 504 32,813 – 1 14 10
2009 1,481 120 173 – 8 331 41,275 – 1 13 9
2010 R 1,406 R 90 R 122 – 11 R 265 R 46,324 R (s) 1 12 8
2011P 1,336 53 88 – 6 169 43,661 (s) 1 12 9
  Industrial Sector 12
1989 15,160 1,088 14,285 352 247 16,963 469,588 113 659 19 48
1990 17,041 1,488 16,084 893 918 23,056 538,506 171 790 25 50
1991 16,412 2,567 13,893 834 777 21,177 538,800 180 758 23 55
1992 16,864 1,945 14,891 925 856 22,041 565,279 194 801 24 50
1993 16,988 1,887 16,311 829 987 23,960 577,103 174 815 29 49
1994 17,428 1,906 17,419 505 1,075 25,207 608,496 173 884 27 52
1995 17,192 1,277 15,272 584 1,010 22,182 656,665 175 882 25 55
1996 17,281 1,624 17,069 670 1,097 24,848 678,608 182 855 26 53
1997 17,542 1,772 14,328 267 1,835 25,541 659,021 178 892 27 67
1998 16,824 4,391 15,313 662 1,230 26,518 730,108 202 862 29 58
1999 16,330 4,228 13,148 808 1,307 24,718 762,210 219 849 23 60
2000 16,325 2,200 12,459 1,402 800 20,062 745,165 223 875 25 63
2001 15,119 1,850 11,167 560 542 16,287 656,071 160 685 20 58
2002 14,377 1,149 9,097 1,312 399 13,555 554,970 139 672 18 48
2003 14,406 1,844 9,041 1,529 675 15,788 475,327 126 735 21 57
2004 18,926 2,473 13,791 1,686 798 21,939 624,443 187 1,000 19 53
2005 18,371 3,153 13,738 1,207 568 20,940 565,803 179 977 30 48
2006 17,854 1,258 9,971 1,136 1,055 17,640 578,828 190 1,029 30 57
2007 17,449 1,066 9,429 1,222 1,090 17,166 496,796 180 959 31 57
2008 16,827 788 4,093 882 769 9,605 434,676 165 905 31 22
2009 15,091 1,835 3,909 790 873 10,900 469,970 142 796 31 41
2010 R 16,513 R 993 R 1,882 R 692 R 950 R 8,318 R 473,683 R 139 R 857 R 38 R 36
2011P 16,643 473 1,381 491 987 7,279 459,524 154 864 36 9
1Anthracite, bituminous coal, subbituminous coal, lignite, waste coal, and coal synfuel. 9Municipal solid waste from biogenic sources, landfill gas, sludge waste, agricultural byproducts, and
other biomass.  Through 2000, also includes non-renewable waste (municipal solid waste from
non-biogenic sources, and tire-derived fuels).
2Fuel oil nos. 1, 2, and 4. 10Batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, miscellaneous technologies, and,
beginning in 2001, non-renewable waste (municipal solid waste from non-biogenic sources, and tire-derived
fuels).
3Fuel oil nos. 5 and 6. 11Commercial combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants.
4Jet fuel, kerosene, other petroleum liquids, and waste oil. 12Industrial combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants.
5Petroleum coke is converted from short tons to barrels by multiplying by 5. R=Revised.  P=Preliminary.  – =No data reported.  (s)=Less than 0.5.  
6Natural gas, plus a small amount of supplemental gaseous fuels. Notes:  ·  Estimates are for fuels consumed to produce useful thermal output; they exclude fuels
consumed to produce electricity.  ·  See Table 8.6b for electric power sector CHP data.  ·  See Note 1,
"Coverage of Electricity Statistics," and Note 2, "Classification of Power Plants Into Energy-Use Sectors," at
end of section.  ·  See "Useful Thermal Output" in Glossary.  ·  Totals may not equal sum of components
due to independent rounding.
7Blast furnace gas, propane gas, and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels. Web Page:  For related information, see http://www.eia.gov/electricity/.
8Wood and wood-derived fuels. Sources:  ·  1989-1997—U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-867, "Annual Nonutility
Power Producer Report."  ·  1998-2000—EIA, Form EIA-860B, "Annual Electric Generator
Report—Nonutility."  ·  2001-2003—EIA, Form EIA-906, "Power Plant Report."  ·  2004-2007—EIA, Form
EIA-920, "Combined Heat and Power Plant Report."  ·  2008 forward—EIA, Form EIA-923, "Power Plant
Operations Report."
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