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 nuclear capacity accounted for fourteen percent.