Released: March 2013

Next MECS will be fielded in 2015

Table 1.5 First Use of Energy for All Purposes (Fuel and Nonfuel), 2010;

 Level: National Data; 

 Row: Energy Sources and Shipments, including Further Classification of 'Other' Energy Sources;

 Column: First Use per Energy Sources and Shipments;

 Unit: Trillion Btu.

Total

Energy Source First Use

Total United States

Coal 1,328

Natural Gas 5,725

Net Electricity 2,437

 Purchases 2,510

 Transfers In 33

 Onsite Generation from Noncombustible Renewable Energy 7

 Sales and Transfers Offsite 113

Coke and Breeze 374

Residual Fuel Oil 170

Distillate Fuel Oil 135

Liquefied Petroleum Gases and Natural Gas Liquids 2,057

Other 7,381

 Asphalt and Road Oil (a) 946

 Lubricants (a) 386

 Naphtha < 401 Degrees (a) 422

 Other Oils ≥ 401 Degrees (a) 718

 Special Naphthas (a) 82

 Waxes (a) 28

 Miscellaneous Nonfuel Products (a) 164

 Kerosene 35

 Motor Gasoline 8

 Petroleum Coke 762

 Still Gas/Waste Gas 1,413

 Pulping Liquor or Black Liquor 824

 Biomass Total 630

 Agricultural Waste 44

 Wood Harvested Directly from Trees 64

 Wood Residues and Byproducts from Mill Processing 504

 Wood-Related and Paper-Related Refuse 17

 Net Steam/Hot Water 731

 Miscellaneous 232

Shipments of Energy Sources Produced Onsite (b) 788

Total (c) 18,817

 (a) These nonenergy products are produced from feedstocks and raw material inputs

used by the petroleum refining industry. The energy content of these products is included

in 'Other' to account for their production.

 (b) 'Shipments of Energy Sources Produced Onsite' are those shipments produced or transformed

onsite from the nonfuel use of other energy sources. For example, at an establishment that

processes coal to make coke for later use, the entire quantity of coal is counted as first use.

Any onsite consumption of coke is not counted as first use because it would duplicate

the coal use. If some of the coke is then sold to another establishment, then that second

establishment will consider this coke to be a shipment of an offsite-produced energy source.

Hence, the second establishment will count this coke as its first use, thereby resulting in
Released: March 2013

Next MECS will be fielded in 2015

Table 1.5 First Use of Energy for All Purposes (Fuel and Nonfuel), 2010;

 Level: National Data; 

 Row: Energy Sources and Shipments, including Further Classification of 'Other' Energy Sources;

 Column: First Use per Energy Sources and Shipments;

 Unit: Trillion Btu.

Total

Energy Source First Use

double counting. In order to eliminate the double counting, the energy equivalent of the

coke shipment must be subtracted from first use.

 (c) 'Total' is the sum of all of the listed energy sources, including 'Other,' minus the

shipments of energy sources produced onsite. It is the total amount of first use of energy

for all (fuel and nonfuel) purposes.

 NF=No applicable RSE row/column factor.

 * Estimate less than 0.5.

 W=Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments.

 Q=Withheld because Relative Standard Error is greater than 50 percent.

 NA=Not available.

 -- Estimation is not applicable. Energy source is not included in series.

 Notes: Totals may not equal sum of components because of 

independent rounding.

 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Consumption 

and Efficiency Statistics, Form EIA-846, '2010 Manufacturing Energy

Consumption Survey.'