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Table 7d. U.S. Electricity Generation by Fuel and Sector Billion Kilowatthours per Day
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Electric Power Sector^a
Coal	5.458	5.397	5.475	5.399	4.830
Natural Gas	1.874	2.012	2.232	2.182	2.286
Other Gases	0.010	0.012	0.011	0.009	0.008
Petroleum	0.319	0.164	0.168	0.116	0.107
Residual Fuel Oil	0.232	0.093	0.104	0.060	0.050
Distillate Fuel Oil	0.027	0.018	0.022	0.017	0.017
Petroleum Coke	0.057	0.049	0.038	0.035	0.037
Other Petroleum	0.004	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.003
Nuclear	2.142	2.157	2.209	2.203	2.207
Pumped Storage Hydroelectric	-0.018	-0.018	-0.019	-0.017	-0.014
Other Fuels^b	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.019
Renewables:
Conventional Hydroelectric	0.732	0.784	0.674	0.672	0.703
Geothermal	0.040	0.040	0.040	0.041	0.040
Solar	0.002	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.002
Wind	0.049	0.073	0.094	0.142	0.181
Wood and Wood Waste	0.029	0.028	0.029	0.030	0.029
Other Renewables	0.036	0.038	0.039	0.041	0.041
Subtotal Electric Power Sector	10.691	10.707	10.974	10.838	10.440
Commercial Sector^c
Coal	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.003	0.003
Natural Gas	0.012	0.012	0.012	0.011	0.011
Petroleum	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000
Other Fuels^b	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
Renewables^d	0.005	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.004
Subtotal Commercial Sector	0.023	0.023	0.023	0.022	0.021
Industrial Sector^c
Coal	0.053	0.053	0.046	0.046	0.041
Natural Gas	0.200	0.213	0.213	0.203	0.198
Other Gases	0.027	0.027	0.026	0.023	0.019
Petroleum	0.015	0.012	0.012	0.008	0.008
Other Fuels^b	0.014	0.014	0.013	0.007	0.009
Renewables:
Conventional Hydroelectric	0.009	0.008	0.004	0.005	0.005
Wood and Wood Waste	0.077	0.078	0.077	0.076	0.072
Other Renewables^e	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.001
Subtotal Industrial Sector	0.397	0.406	0.392	0.371	0.354
Total All Sectors	11.111	11.136	11.388	11.230	10.815

^a	Electric utilities and independent power producers.
^b	"Other" includes non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, tires and miscellaneous technologies.
^c	Commercial and industrial sectors include electricity output from combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and some electric-only plants.
^d	"Renewables" in commercial sector includes wood, black liquor, other wood waste, biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, other biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic energy and wind.
^e	"Other Renewables" in industrial sector includes black liquor, biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, other biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic energy and wind.

	- = no data available
	Notes: The approximate break between historical and forecast values is shown with historical data printed in bold; estimates and forecasts in italics.
	Values of 0.000 may indicate positive levels of generation that are less than 0.0005 billion kilowatthours per day.
	Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the following reports: Electric Power Monthly, DOE/EIA-0226; and Electric Power Annual, DOE/EIA-0348.
	Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding.
	Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.