Some data on electricity production through August

Coal-fired plants contributed 49.5 percent of the Nation’s electric power, year-to-date. Nuclear plants contributed 19.6 percent, while 19.2 percent was generated at natural gas-fired plants. Of the 1.1 percent generated by petroleum-fired plants, petroleum liquids represented 0.7 percent, with the remainder from petroleum coke (Figure 2). Conventional hydroelectric power provided 7.1 percent of the total, while other renewables (primarily biomass, but also geothermal, solar, and wind) and other miscellaneous energy sources generated the remaining electric power. More...