Released in two volumes, Electric Power Annual summarizes electric power industry statistics at the national, regional, and state levels. According to Volume II of the Electric Power Annual for 1997, revenue from retail sales increased 1.2 percent to $215 billion in 1997, and the national average revenue per kWh decreased from 6.86 in 1996 to 6.85 1997.

According to the EIA's Electric Power Annual, electric utility generating capability in the United States totaled 712,033 megawatts in 1997, and electric utilities received 881 million short tons of coal, 118 million barrels of petroleum, and 2,765 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas at a total delivered cost of $33 billion. Coal accounted for 84 percent of the total Btu content of fossil fuels...

This monthly publication from the EIA reports that total US net generation of electricity in October 1999 was at 224 billion kilowatthours, 3 percent below the level of generation in October 1998. Sales of electricity in October 1999 were also lower, down 1 percent from the previous year.

According to this 357-page document from the Energy Information Administration, "the existing capacity of U.S. electric utilities totaled 686,692 megawatts (Table 1), a net change of -25,197 megawatts (-3.5 percent) from the total reported as of January 1, 1998." Forty-four percent of the United States's existing capacity was coal-fired, gas-fired capacity represented eighteen percent, while...

In 2002, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released this comprehensive report of electric generating plant capacity for the year 2000. Over 300 pages in length, the document contains detailed discussions, tables, and charts of the country's electric utilities. There is a large amount of capacity and usage data that is broken down into primary energy source categories, including coal,...