Coal Consumption by Sector
Nebraska, 1960-2004


Nebraska used 13,023 thousand (13.0 million) short tons of coal in 2004, a 0.7 percent decrease from 2003.  Coal used for electricity generation accounted for nearly all (97 percent) of the consumption with 2.9 percent consumed in the industrial sector.  The commercial sector consumed less than one percent.  Any coal consumption in the transportation and residential sectors was small enough to round to zero in this table.

Year Sectors Total
End-Use Sectors Electric
Power
Commercial Industrial Residential Transportation
1960 89 408 129 7 256 888
1961 60 449 87 2 209 808
1962 63 468 91 2 388 1,012
1963 45 498 62 2 465 1,073
1964 32 447 44 2 501 1,026
1965 26 349 35 1 486 896
1966 20 395 27 1 417 860
1967 14 254 19 1 501 789
1968 16 159 20 0 534 729
1969 31 174 40 0 901 1,146
1970 16 240 20 0 1,006 1,283
1971 17 193 17 0 947 1,174
1972 24 218 18 0 1,228 1,488
1973 14 312 8 0 1,350 1,685
1974 9 319 4 0 1,228 1,561
1975 6 308 3 0 1,278 1,595
1976 7 604 3 0 2,012 2,626
1977 12 553 5 0 2,277 2,846
1978 18 576 5 0 2,367 2,967
1979 48 538 12 0 3,461 4,058
1980 15 269 4 0 4,702 4,990
1981 13 376 3 0 5,067 5,459
1982 22 325 5 0 5,048 5,399
1983 47 216 9 0 5,656 5,928
1984 73 280 17 0 6,569 6,939
1985 9 261 3 0 6,380 6,653
1986 3 339 1 0 5,945 6,288
1987 3 312 1 0 6,428 6,744
1988 35 268 10 0 7,744 8,057
1989 4 279 1 0 7,303 7,587
1990 3 235 1 0 8,027 8,266
1991 9 324 2 0 8,524 8,859
1992 5 325 1 0 7,881 8,212
1993 4 364 1 0 9,297 9,666
1994 6 414 1 0 8,879 9,300
1995 8 339 1 0 10,048 10,396
1996 1 286 0 0 10,091 10,379
1997 105 296 13 0 10,796 11,210
1998 0 384 0 0 11,505 11,889
1999 0 405 0 0 11,219 11,625
2000 0 407 0 0 11,503 11,910
2001 5 518 1 0 12,606 13,130
2002 6 388 1 0 12,210 12,605
2003 5 385 1 0 12,725 13,115
2004 3 371 0 0 12,650 13,023

Sources:  State Energy Data Report.  Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC.  Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

Notes:  Totals may not equal the sum of the components due to independent rounding.  The numbers for 1997 will not match the Energy Information Administration numbers.  The Energy Information Administration numbers show 105 for the commercial sector, 296 for the industrial sector, and 13 for the residential sector when all three numbers should have been allocated to the industrial sector.

The table and graph were updated on August 22, 2007.
Typically, there are two years between updates.

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