Analysis - The Institute for Southern Studies

Exhibit 3C
State-by-State Electric Utility Plant Counts by Type/Size of Owner Entity (2007)
Count of Plants Owned by Non-Small Entities
Count of Plants Owned by Small Entities
Item State
Federal
government
State
Government
Non-small
municipal
Non-small
company
Non-small
cooperative
County
government
Small
municipal
Small
company
Small
cooperative
Row total
plants
39 PA 32 2 34
40 RI 0
41 SC 4 10 14
42 SD 2 2
43 TN 7 7
44 TX 1 2 14 1 1 19
45 UT 1 4 1 6
46 VA 15 1 16
47 VT 0
48 WA 1 1
49 WI 12 3 2 17
50 WV 16 16
51 WY 8 1 9
Column totals= 11 13 27 372 20 1 33 12 6 495
The annual amount of coal burned by these 495 operating plants is 1.036 billion tons per year as reported in the 2007 EIA-923 database,
according to the following five types of coal fuel categories:
Bituminous coal (DOE-EIA data code = BIT): 330 plants (67% of 495 plants)
Lignite coal (LIG): 21 plants (4%)
Coal-based synthetic fuel (SC): 19 plants (4%)
Sub-bituminous coal (SUB): 201 plants (41%)
Waste/other coal (WC): 33 plants (7%)
Many plants use more than one coal fuel type so the above percentages exceed 100%. Appendices B & C present the quantity of coal burned
and the types of coal burned for the list of 495 plants. As displayed in the state-by-state Exhibit 3D below, 47 states have coal-fired electric
utility plants (3 states --- ID, RI, VT --- and DC do not have electric utility plants). The top-5 state coal-fired electric utility plant counts are:
1. PA 34 plants
2. IN & OH 26 plants each
3. IL 25 plants
4. MI & NC 22 plants each
5. KY 21plants
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