Energy Expenditures in Nebraska's Industrial Sector

The industrial sector consists of manufacturing, construction, mining, agriculture, and forestry organizations.  Energy used by this sector to transport products to market or inputs to the organizations is included in the transportation sector.

Total industrial sector expenditures on energy increased 19 percent to $1,475.9 million from 2004 to 2005.  In 2005, the industrial sector spent $390.6 million for electricity, $439.2 million for diesel fuel, $343.1 million for natural gas, $104.8 million for propane, $114.2 million for motor gasoline, $40.9 million for asphalt and road oil, $18.3 million for other petroleum products (a definition is in the next paragraph), $10.0 million for coal, $8.5 million for lubricants, $4.3 million for residual fuel, $1.3 million for wood and waste, and $0.6 million for kerosene.  There are no direct fuel costs for hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, photovoltaic, or solar thermal energy.

Other petroleum products include sixteen (16) separate products, all of which are assigned to the industrial sector.  The sixteen products are:  aviation gasoline blending components; crude oil; motor gasoline blending components; natural gasoline, including isopentane; pentanes plus; petrochemical feedstocks, naphtha; petrochemical feedstocks, other oils; petrochemical feedstocks, still gas; petroleum coke; plant condensate; special naphthas; still gas; unfinished oils; unfractionated streams; waxes; and miscellaneous.  Miscellaneous products vary from inexpensive (absorption oils similar to kerosene) to very expensive (hydraulic fluids) products.  The greater part of the miscellaneous product line consists of finished petrochemicals, especially the aromatic hydrocarbons:  benzene, toluene, and the xylenes.

Nearly all of the money spent in the industrial sector on energy in 2005 went to petroleum (50 percent), electricity (26 percent), and natural gas (23 percent) expenditures.  Within the petroleum category, expenditures on diesel fuel comprised 30 percent of the total expenditures, propane expenditures were 7 percent, motor gasoline expenditures were 8 percent, and asphalt and road oil expenditures were 3 percent.  Expenditures on each of the rest of the petroleum products were less than two percent.  Coal expenditures were 0.7 percent of the total expenditures, and 0.1 percent of the industrial sector's energy expenditures went to renewable energy, which was entirely comprised of wood and waste.

The expenditures are in nominal dollars to provide a better comparison.

Sources:  State Energy Price and Expenditure Report.  Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC.  Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

Notes:  There are no direct fuel costs for hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, photovoltaic, or solar thermal energy.  Totals may not equal the sum of the components due to independent rounding.
¹ Other petroleum is the subtotal of sixteen (16) petroleum products consumed in the industrial sector.

The table and graph were updated on June 18, 2008.  Typically, there are two years between updates.

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