Table 1. Summary of U.S. Electric Power

Statistics, 2000 and 1999

Item 2000 1999a

Capabilityb (megawatts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811,625 787,902

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602,377 639,324

Nonutility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209,248 148,578

Net Generationc (billion kilowatthours) 3,800 3,705

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,015 3,174

Nonutility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 531

Utility Retail Salesb (billion kilowatthours) 3,413 3,312

Utility Retail Pricesb

(cents per kilowatthour) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.68 6.66

Stocks (end-of-year)

Coal (million short tons) . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 143

Utilityc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 128

Nonutilityb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14

Petroleum (million barrels) . . . . . . . . . . 41 53

Utilityc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 44

Nonutilityb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9

Utility Fossil Fuel Consumptionc

Coal (million short tons) . . . . . . . . . . . . 859 894

Petroleum (million barrels) . . . . . . . . . . 120 144

Petroleum Coke (thousand short tons) 1,132 1,608

Gas (billion cubic feet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,043 3,113

Nonutility Fossil Fuel Consumptionb

Coal (million short tons) . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 58

Petroleum (million barrels) . . . . . . . . . . 53 52

Petroleum Coke (thousand short tons) 3,021 2,915

Gas (billion cubic feet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,287 2,636

Utility Fossil Fuel Costa (dollars per million Btu)

Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.20 1.22

Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.45 2.53

PetroleumCoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.59 0.65

Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.30 2.57

Utility Fossil Fuel Receiptsa

Coal (million short tons) . . . . . . . . . . . . 790 908

Petroleum (million barrels) . . . . . . . . . . 100 131

Petroleum Coke (thousand short tons) 1,683 2,906

Gas (billion cubic feet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,630 2,809

a Data are final.

b Data for 2000 are preliminary.

c Data for 2000 are final.

NA = Not available.

Btu = British Thermal Unit.

Notes: $Nonutilitydata represent fuels consumed to produce electricity.

$Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.

Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear,

Electric and Alternate Fuels, Electric Power Division.