Kentucky Coal Facts - 13th Edition - Department for Energy ...

Delivered Price of Coal by Origin
Origin $ per MMBtu (2012) Since 2008
Eastern Kentucky 3.82 + 22%
West Virginia 3.40 + 14%
Pennsylvania 3.06 + 16%
Illinois 2.64 + 12%
Western Kentucky 2.46 + 22%
Wyoming 2.03 + 28%
In 2012, Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
and Illinois represented 71 percent of coal production in the
United States. A group of 20 states accounted for the remaining
29 percent of coal production; yet, no state within
this group represented more than 4 percent of national production,
individually.
Of the five largest coal-producing states in 2012, coal
mined in Eastern Kentucky was on average the most expensive
coal delivered to electric utilities in the United States.
West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which also produce bituminous
coal from the Central Appalachian Basin, supplied the
second and third most expensive coal to electric power facilities.
Wyoming, which was the nation’s largest producer of
coal in 2012 and mines sub-bituminous coal in the Powder
River Basin, offered the least expensive coal on average to
power plants during the year.
Variables such as market demand, coal mine productivity,
heat content, sulfur content, spot pricing, and transportation
costs all combine to affect the ultimate, delivered cost of any
shipment of coal.
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