Nebraska used 15,683 thousand (15.7 million) short tons of coal in 2015, a decrease of 3.5 percent from 2014. Coal used for electricity generation accounted for nearly all (92.5 percent) of the consumption with 7.5 percent consumed in the industrial sector. Any coal consumption in the commercial, transportation, and residential sectors was small enough to round to zero in this table.
Coal Consumption in
Nebraska by Sector
| Year | Sectors | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End–Use Sectors | Electric Power |
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| Commercial | Industrial | Residential | Transportation | |||
| 2015 | 0 | 1,175 | 0 | 0 | 14,508 | 15,683 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1,217 | 0 | 0 | 15,036 | 16,253 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1,124 | 0 | 0 | 15,829 | 16,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1,038 | 0 | 0 | 14,884 | 15,922 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1,039 | 0 | 0 | 15,711 | 16,750 |
| 2010 | 0 | 698 | 0 | 0 | 14,167 | 14,865 |
| 2009 | 0 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 14,183 | 14,575 |
| 2008 | 0 | 415 | 0 | 0 | 13,360 | 13,776 |
| 2007 | 5 | 427 | 1 | 0 | 12,267 | 12,699 |
| 2006 | 5 | 420 | 0 | 0 | 12,881 | 13,307 |
| 2005 | 3 | 393 | 0 | 0 | 12,886 | 13,283 |
| 2004 | 3 | 371 | 0 | 0 | 12,650 | 13,023 |
| 2003 | 5 | 385 | 1 | 0 | 12,725 | 13,115 |
| 2002 | 6 | 388 | 1 | 0 | 12,210 | 12,605 |
| 2001 | 5 | 518 | 1 | 0 | 12,606 | 13,130 |
| 2000 | 0 | 407 | 0 | 0 | 11,503 | 11,910 |
| 1999 | 0 | 405 | 0 | 0 | 11,219 | 11,625 |
| 1998 | 0 | 384 | 0 | 0 | 11,505 | 11,889 |
| 1997* | 105* | 296 | 13 | 0 | 10,796 | 11,210 |
| 1996 | 1 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 10,091 | 10,379 |
| 1995 | 8 | 339 | 1 | 0 | 10,048 | 10,396 |
| 1994 | 6 | 414 | 1 | 0 | 8,879 | 9,300 |
| 1993 | 4 | 364 | 1 | 0 | 9,297 | 9,666 |
| 1992 | 5 | 325 | 1 | 0 | 7,881 | 8,212 |
| 1991 | 9 | 324 | 2 | 0 | 8,524 | 8,859 |
| 1990 | 3 | 235 | 1 | 0 | 8,027 | 8,266 |
| Year | Sectors | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End–Use Sectors | Electric Power |
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| Commercial | Industrial | Residential | Transportation | |||
| 1989 | 4 | 279 | 1 | 0 | 7,303 | 7,587 |
| 1988 | 35 | 268 | 10 | 0 | 7,744 | 8,057 |
| 1987 | 3 | 312 | 1 | 0 | 6,428 | 6,744 |
| 1986 | 3 | 339 | 1 | 0 | 5,945 | 6,288 |
| 1985 | 9 | 261 | 3 | 0 | 6,380 | 6,653 |
| 1984 | 73 | 280 | 17 | 0 | 6,569 | 6,939 |
| 1983 | 47 | 216 | 9 | 0 | 5,656 | 5,928 |
| 1982 | 22 | 325 | 5 | 0 | 5,048 | 5,399 |
| 1981 | 13 | 376 | 3 | 0 | 5,067 | 5,459 |
| 1980 | 15 | 269 | 4 | 0 | 4,702 | 4,990 |
| 1979 | 48 | 538 | 12 | 0 | 3,461 | 4,058 |
| 1978 | 18 | 576 | 5 | 0 | 2,367 | 2,967 |
| 1977 | 12 | 553 | 5 | 0 | 2,277 | 2,846 |
| 1976 | 7 | 604 | 3 | 0 | 2,012 | 2,626 |
| 1975 | 6 | 308 | 3 | 0 | 1,278 | 1,595 |
| 1974 | 9 | 319 | 4 | 0 | 1,228 | 1,561 |
| 1973 | 14 | 312 | 8 | 0 | 1,350 | 1,685 |
| 1972 | 24 | 218 | 18 | 0 | 1,228 | 1,488 |
| 1971 | 17 | 193 | 17 | 0 | 947 | 1,174 |
| 1970 | 16 | 240 | 20 | 0 | 1,006 | 1,283 |
| 1969 | 31 | 174 | 40 | 0 | 901 | 1,146 |
| 1968 | 16 | 159 | 20 | 0 | 534 | 729 |
| 1967 | 14 | 254 | 19 | 1 | 501 | 789 |
| 1966 | 20 | 395 | 27 | 1 | 417 | 860 |
| 1965 | 26 | 349 | 35 | 1 | 486 | 896 |
| 1964 | 32 | 447 | 44 | 2 | 501 | 1,026 |
| 1963 | 45 | 498 | 62 | 2 | 465 | 1,073 |
| 1962 | 63 | 468 | 91 | 2 | 388 | 1,012 |
| 1961 | 60 | 449 | 87 | 2 | 209 | 808 |
| 1960 | 89 | 408 | 129 | 7 | 256 | 888 |
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.
* For 1997, 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 2, 2017.
Typically, there are one to two years between updates.