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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 Economics
and Statistics Division 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
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 981,002 megawatts as of December 31, 2002, an increase of
7.6 percent over 2001.
- U.S. shareholder-owned installed generating capacity was 397,982
megawatts as of December 31, 2002. This accounts for approximately 41
percent of total electric power industry installed capacity.
- Non-utility owned installed generating capacity grew by 29 percent
from 294,137 megawatts in 2001 to 379,373 megawatts in 2002. This
increase was due in large part to over 28,000 megawatts of electric
utility capacity being sold and reclassified as non-utility during 2002.
Generation
- Total U.S. electricity generation was 3,841,456 gigawatthours during
2002, an increase of 2.1% over the 3,763,385 gigawatthours of
electricity generated in 2001.
- In 2001, U.S. shareholder electric companies accounted for 1,849,094
gigawatthours or 49.1% of total U.S. electricity generation.
- In 2001, electricity generation at non-utility-owned plants
increased by 43.8% from 2000, totaling 1,127,882 gigawatthours and
accounting for 30% of the total electricity generation in the U.S.
Learn more about electricity
generation.
Fuel Mix
- In 2002, 50.1 percent of our nation's electricity
was generated from coal. Nuclear energy produced
20.3 percent. Natural gas supplied
18.1 percent. Hydropower and, to a lesser extent,
other renewable resources-such as biomass, geothermal, solar, and
wind-provided 9.1 percent of the supply, while fuel oil provided
2.4 percent of the generation mix.
- In 2002, the following amount of electricity, in gigawatthours, was
generated from the following sources of fuel:
- Coal: 1,925,792 GWh
- Nuclear: 779,461 GWh
- Gas: 695,226 GWh
- Hydro: 255,077 GWh
- Fuel Oil: 91,629 GWh
- Biomass: 71,534 GWh
- Other (geothermal, non-wood waste, wind and solar): 22,737 GWh
Learn more about
the diverse
fuels used to generate electricity.
Emission
Reductions
- The U.S. electric power industry has cut sulfur dioxide (SO2)
emissions by almost 40 percent and will achieve a similar level of
reduction in nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 2004.
Learn more about emission
reductions under the Clear
Skies Act of 2003.
- Through a voluntary partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy,
the electric power industry eliminated 275 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide (CO2) in the year 2001 alone. The electric power
industry's contribution accounted for 78% of the total amount of carbon
dioxide (352 million metric tons) eliminated through the entire program
in 2001.
Learn more about our
industry's climate
actions.
Customers, Sales, and
Revenues
- The average number of ultimate customers of electric utilities
increased by 1.7% over 2000, totaling 130,715,442 for 2001.
- Average kilowatt-hours used per customer during 2001 was of 25,979.
- Total electric utility revenues from sales to ultimate customers for
2002 increased 4.8% over 2001, totaling 250.1 billion dollars.
- Average revenue received per customer during 2002 was 7.21 cents per
kilowatt-hour.
- According to the Energy Information Administration, electricity
consumption will increase by 51 percent from 2002 to 2025.
Financial
- Total operating revenues of shareholder-owned electric companies
were $325.6 billion in 2002.
- Consolidated holding company-level assets of shareholder-owned
electric companies were $855.3 billion in 2002.
- Of these assets, $480.7 billion were net utility plant.
- Total capitalization of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies
was $532.1 billion in 2002.
Find more financial
statistics in EEI's
Financial Review
Transmission
- Over the past 25 years, investments in electric transmission have
been declining at a rate of $103 million per year.
- Transmission investment in the year 2000 was more than $2.5 billion
less (in $2001) than the level of investment in 1975. Over this
same period, electricity sales nearly doubled.
Source: EEI's Statistical Yearbook of the Electric Utility
Industry , May 2003
Learn more about the
electricity transmission
system.
Access Construction Expenditure Data  from the
shareholder-owned electric utilities sector.
EEI Staff
Contacts
Chris Eisenbrey at (202) 508-5574 or ceisenbrey@eei.org
Stephen
Frauenheim at (202) 508-5580 or sfrauenheim@eei.org
Peggy
Suggs at (202) 508-5572 or psuggs@eei.org
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