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Friday, March 7, 2014

Fwd: STATE ENERGY DATA RELEASE ON COAL TRENDS

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From: <EIA_eLists@eia.gov>
Date: Friday, March 7, 2014
Subject: STATE ENERGY DATA RELEASE
To: State Energy Data Products <sedr@mailer.eia.gov>

STATE ENERGY DATA RELEASE—March 7, 2014

State-level estimates of coal consumption, prices, and expenditures for 2012

State-level estimates for coal, for data year 2012, are available at SEDS Updates. Data highlights include the following:

U.S. consumption of coal fell from 20 quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 17 quadrillion Btu in 2012, a 12-percent decrease. Electric power sector consumption accounted for 91 percent of total consumption in 2012. The top consuming states were Texas, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.

The price of coal averaged $2.60 per million Btu in the United States in 2012, a 1-percent increase from 2011. Prices ranged from $1.48 per million Btu in Wyoming to $4.69 per million Btu in Maine.

U.S. coal expenditures fell from $50.4 billion in 2011 to $45.2 billion in 2012, a 10-percent decrease.

The latest 2012 estimates are incorporated into the time-series data files in the Data Files section of the SEDS Updates page.

SEDS provides annual state-level estimates of energy production, consumption, prices, and expenditures by sector and energy source. The 2012 SEDS reports, which contain summary tables comparing estimates across states and time-series tables for each state, as well as a full set of SEDS data files, will be released in June 2014.

Contact:

Yvonne Taylor

(202) 586-1455

Yvonne.Taylor@eia.gov

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