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.