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EEI maintains comprehensive statistical data on the electric industry and shareholder-owned electric companies. Below are quick statistical highlights providing an overview of the electric power industry. For more detailed information see:
- EEI's Project Support Group for continuous, accurate, and timely access to statistical data in a variety of formats.
- Products and Services for-sale including Weekly Electric Output, Statistical Yearbook of the Electric Utility Industry, and Profiles and Rankings of Shareholder-Owned Electric Companies.
Statistical Highlights
The majority of this information can be found in EEI's Statistical Yearbook of the Electric Power Industry (December 2006). Select a category, or scroll down, for summary data on the electric power industry:
Capacity
- The U.S. electric power industry's total installed generating capacity was 1,067,019 megawatts (MW) as of December 31, 2005—a 1.7-percent increase from 2004.
- U.S. shareholder-owned installed generating capacity was 398,392 MW as of December 31, 2005. This accounts for approximately 37 percent of total electric power industry installed capacity.
- Non-utility owned installed generating capacity grew from 446,230 MW in 2004 to 446,346 MW in 2005.
Generation
In 2005, the latest year for which data are available:
- Total U.S. electricity generation was 4,054,688 gigawatt-hours (GWh)—a 2.1-percent increase from 2004.
- U.S. shareholder electric companies accounted for 1,756,288 GWh or 43.3 percent of total U.S. electricity generation.
- Electricity generation at non-utility-owned plants totaled 1,424,548 GWh—a decrease from 2004—and accounted for 35 percent of the total electricity generation in the United States.
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Fuel Mix
In 2005, the latest year for which data are available:
- 49.7 percent of our nation's electricity was generated from coal. Nuclear energy produced 19.3 percent. Natural gas supplied 18.7 percent. Hydropower provided 6.5 percent of the supply. Fuel oil provided 3.0 percent of the generation mix. Biomass produced 1.6 percent, while other renewable resources, such as geothermal, solar, and wind, provided the remainder of the supply.
- The following amount of electricity, in gigawatt-hours (GWh), was generated from the nation's fuel mix:
- Coal: 2,013,179 GWh
- Nuclear: 781,986 GWh
- Gas: 757,974 GWh
- Hydro: 263,029 GWh
- Fuel Oil: 122,522 GWh
- Biomass: 63,856 GWh
- Other (geothermal, non-wood waste, wind, and solar): 52,142 GWh
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Emission Reductions
- Since 1980, the U.S. electric power industry has cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 40 percent and nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 44 percent, while electricity demand grew by 77 percent.
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Through Climate Challenge, a voluntary partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, the electric power industry eliminated 237 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the year 2000 alone. Power sector actions comprised about 70 percent of the total reductions and offsets reported to the government that year.
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Through another government-industry partnership, called Power PartnersSM, the power sector reduced, avoided, or sequestered more than 282 million metric tons of carbon-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions in 2004. That number represents nearly two-thirds of all reductions reported to the federal government that year.
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Customers, Sales, and Revenues
In 2005, the latest year for which data are available:
- The average number of ultimate customers served by electric utilities totaled 138,367,159—a 1.7-percent increase from 2004.
- The average electricity use per customer was 26,458 kilowatt-hours (kWh).
- Total electric utility revenues from sales to ultimate customers equaled $298 billion—a 10.3-percent increase from 2004.
- The average revenue received per kWh sold was 8.14 cents.
- According to the Energy Information Administration, electricity demand is expected to increase by 2.5 percent in 2006, and 1.9 percent in 2007.
Financial
In 2005, the latest year for which data are available:
- Total energy operating revenues of shareholder-owned electric companies were $387.1 billion.
- Consolidated holding company-level assets of shareholder-owned electric companies were $963.6 billion.
- Of these assets, $520.8 billion were net property in service.
- Total capitalization of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies was $533.4 billion.
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Transmission
- In 2005, shareholder-owned electric utilities spent $5.8 billion on transmission investment, compared to $2.9 billion in 1995 (in real dollars).
- Read more about the electricity transmission system.
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