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Now Available! Statistical Yearbook of the Electric Power Industry - 2006/2007 Data

Industry Statistics

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 (May 2008). Select a category, or scroll down, for summary data on the electric power industry:

• Capacity
• Generation
• Fuel Mix
• Emission Reductions
• Customers, Sales, and Revenues
• Financial Performance
• Transmission

Capacity

• The U.S. electric power industry's total installed generating capacity was 1,089,807 megawatts (MW) as of December 31, 2007—a 1.3-percent increase from 2006.
• U.S. shareholder-owned installed generating capacity was 409,500 MW as of December 31, 2007. This accounts for approximately 38 percent of total electric power industry installed capacity.
• Non-utility owned installed generating capacity grew from 445,045 MW in 2006 to 450,707 MW in 2007.

Generation

In 2007:

• Total U.S. electricity generation was 4,159,514 gigawatt-hours (GWh)—a 2.3-percent increase from 2006.
• U.S. shareholder electric companies accounted for 1,758,346 GWh or 42.3 percent of total U.S. electricity generation.
• Electricity generation at non-utility-owned plants totaled 1,503,968 GWh—an increase from 2006—and accounted for 36.2 percent of the total electricity generation in the United States.
• Read more about electricity generation.

Fuel Mix

In 2007:

• 48.6 percent of our nation's electricity was generated from coal.  Nuclear energy produced 19.4 percent.  Natural gas supplied 21.5 percent.  Hydropower provided 5.8 percent  of the supply. Fuel oil provided 1.6 percent of the generation mix. Other renewable resources, such as geothermal, solar, and wind, provided 2.5 percent, with other miscellaneous sources providing the balance.
• The following amount of electricity, in gigawatt-hours (GWh), was generated from the nation's fuel mix:
  • Coal: 2,020,572 GWh
  • Nuclear: 806,487 GWh
  • Gas: 893,211 GWh
  • Hydro: 241,319 GWh
  • Fuel Oil: 65,708 GWh
  • Other renewables (geothermal, non-wood waste, wind, and solar): 102,988 GWh
  • Other: 29,230 GWh
• Learn more about the diverse fuels used to generate electricity.

Emission Reductions 

• The electric power sector has cut emissions associated with acid rain, ozone, and fine particulate matter—sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x)—by about 50 percent (for both SO₂ and NO_x) since 1980.   
• 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. 
• Through another government-industry partnership, called Power Partners^SM, the power sector reduced, avoided, or sequestered more than 267 million metric tons of carbon-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions in 2005. That number represents nearly two-thirds of all reductions reported to the federal government that year.
• Read more about our industry's climate actions.

Customers, Sales, and Revenues

In 2007:

• The average number of ultimate customers served by electric utilities totaled 142,413,166—a 1.4-percent increase from 2006.
• The average electricity use per customer was 26,319 kilowatt-hours (kWh).
• Total electric utility revenues from sales to ultimate customers equaled $343 billion—a 4.9-percent increase from 2006.
• The average revenue received per kWh sold was 9.14 cents.
• According to the Energy Information Administration, electricity demand is expected to increase by 0.8 percent in 2008, and 1.0 percent in 2009. 

Financial 

In 2007:

• Total energy operating revenues of shareholder-owned electric companies were $405.9 billion.
• Consolidated holding company-level assets of shareholder-owned electric companies were $993.2 billion as of December 31, 2007.
• Of these assets, $560.8 billion were net property in service.
• Total market capitalization of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies was $514.5 billion on December 31, 2007.
• Read more financial statistics in EEI's Financial Review.

Transmission

• In 2007, shareholder-owned electric utilities spent $7.8 billion on transmission investment, compared to $2.0 billion in 1997 (in nominal dollars).
• Read more about the electricity transmission system.
• Access Construction Expenditure Data from the shareholder-owned electric utilities sector.

EEI Staff Contacts

• Chris Eisenbrey, ceisenbrey@eei.org or 202-508-5574
• Stephen Frauenheim, sfrauenheim@eei.org or 202-508-5580
• Peggy Suggs, psuggs@eei.org or 202-508-5572

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