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year format

2013M: EIA-923 through January ZIP

2012M: EIA-923 through December ZIP

2011: EIA-923 ZIP

2010: EIA-923 ZIP

2009: EIA-923 ZIP

2008: EIA-923 ZIP

2007: EIA-906/920/923 ZIP

2006: EIA-906/920 ZIP

2005: EIA-906/920 ZIP

2004: EIA-906/920 ZIP

2003: EIA-906 ZIP

2002: EIA-906 ZIP

2001: EIA-906 ZIP

All data prior to 2012 are final. 

Form EIA-923 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-906/920) 

Monthly Release Date: March 27, 2013 for January 2013 data

Next Monthly Release: End of April 2013 for February 2013 data

Final Data for 2011 Released: October 2, 2012

Re-released: January 23, 2013 Correction/Revision

The survey Form EIA-923 collects detailed electric power data -- monthly and annually -- on electricity 

generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel stocks, and receipts at the power plant and prime mover level. 

Specific survey information provided: 

• Schedule 2 - fuel receipts and costs

• Schedules 3A & 5A - generator data including generation, fuel consumption and stocks

• Schedule 4 - fossil fuel stocks

• Schedules 6 & 7 - non-utility source and disposition of electricity

• Schedules 8A-F - environmental data

Monthly data (M) - over 1,900 plants from the monthly survey

Annual final data - approximately 1,900 monthly plants + 4,100 plants from the annual survey

The EIA-906, EIA-920, EIA-923 and predecessor forms provide monthly and annual data on generation 

and fuel consumption at the power plant and prime mover level. A subset of plants, steam-electric plants 

10 MW and above, also provides boiler level and generator level data. Data for utility plants are 

available from 1970, and for nonutility plants from 1999. Beginning with January 2004 data collection, 

the EIA-920 was used to collect data from the combined heat and power plant (cogeneration) segment 

of the nonutility sector; also as of 2004, nonutilities filed the annual data for nonutility source and 

disposition of electricity. Beginning in 2007, environmental data was collected on Schedules 8A – 8F of 

the Form 923 and includes by-product disposition, financial information, NOX control operations, cooling 

system operations and FGP and FGD unit operations. Beginning in 2008, the EIA-923 superseded the 

EIA-906, EIA-920, FERC 423, and the EIA-423. Schedule 2 of the EIA-923 collects the plant level fuel 

receipts and cost data previously collected on the FERC and EIA Forms 423. Fuel receipts and costs 

data prior to 2008.

Power plant data prior to 2001 are separate files for utility and nonutility plants. For 2001 data and 

subsequent years, the data are Excel spreadsheet files that include data for all plants and make other 

changes to the presentation of the data.

The Form EIA 906/920 data for 2004-2006 were updated. A new method of allocating fuel consumption 

between electric power generation and useful thermal output (UTO) was implemented for 2004-2008. 

This new methodology proportionally distributes a combined heat and power (CHP) plant’s losses 

between the two output products (electric power and UTO). In the historical data, UTO was consistently 

assumed to be 80 percent efficient and all other losses at the plant were allocated to electric power. 

This change results in the fuel for electric power to be lower, while the fuel for UTO is higher than the 

prior set of data as both are given the same efficiency. This results in the appearance of an increase in 

efficiency of production of electric power between 2003 and 2004. The same methodology is applied to 

final 2007 and preliminary 2008 data. More information about the methodology can be found in the 

Appendix C, Technical Notes, to the Electric Power Monthly 

Contact: Electricity data experts

Historical data

Utility 1970-2000

Nonutility 

 2000: EIA-906 ZIP

 1999: EIA-906 ZIP

 1989-1998: EIA-867 ZIP

*Notes XLS

*Notes: Updated 4/21/10 include information on changes to the 

data and other notes.

Related Information:

Monthly Generation and Fuel Consumption by State

Electric Power Monthly

Form EIA-923, Power Plant Operations Report

Annual Electric Utility Data – EIA-906/920/923 Data File Page 1 of 1

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/ 4/19/2013