Publisher's Synopsis
In keeping with EIA's efforts to increase the timeliness of its reports, this Quarterly Coal Distribution Report is a preliminaryreport, based on the most current data available from EIA's various monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys of the coalindustry and electric power generation industry. The final report will rely on the receipt of annual data to replace theimputed monthly data for smaller electric power plants that are excluded from the monthly filing requirement, and finaldata for all other respondents.The Quarterly Coal Distribution Report traces coal from the origin state to the destination state by transportation mode.The data sources beginning with the 2008 Coal Distribution Report reflect a major revision to EIA data collection surveys.The Form EIA-6A, "Coal Distribution Report - Annual," was discontinued at the end of 2007 and the new Form EIA-923,"Power Plant Operations Report" became the source of data for the electric power sector.The Electric Power sector in this report includes electric utilities, independent power producers, and electric utilitycombined heat and power plants. Commercial combined heat and power and industrial combined heat and power plants, which also submit data on the Form EIA-923, are included in the industrial plants (excluding coke) and commercial andinstitutional sectors. Coal receipts as provided in the Quarterly Coal Distribution Report for the electric power sector areless than the total quantities reported on the Form EIA-923. The Quarterly Coal Distribution Report reflects domesticdistribution of coal. Therefore, coal imports from the EIA-923 survey are excluded. Other excluded categories are wastecoal for the electric power sector, plus all receipts for the commercial combined heat and power and industrial combinedheat and power plants.At the end of the second quarter of 2014, the old Form EIA-3, "Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality Report, Manufacturing and Transformation / Processing Coal Plants and Commercial and Institutional Coal Users" and the Form EIA-5, "Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality Report - Coke Plants" were both discontinued. A new Form EIA-3, "QuarterlySurvey of Non-Electric Sector Coal Data" became the source of data for coke plants, industrial plants (excluding coke), andcommercial and institutional facilities.Coal distributed to coke plants is obtained from the Form EIA-3, "Quarterly Survey of Non-Electric Sector Coal Data." Thevolume of coal distributed to coke plants excludes coal imports and is thus smaller than the volume of receipts at cokeplants reported in the Quarterly Coal Report, which includes imports.Coal distributed to industrial plants (excluding coke) is obtained from the Form EIA-3, "Quarterly Survey of Non-ElectricSector Coal Data" and Form EIA-7A, "Annual Survey of Coal Production and Preparation." The Quarterly Coal DistributionReport volume reported for industrial plants (excluding coke) is smaller than the volume of receipts at industrial plants inthe QCR to the extent that the Coal Distribution Report excludes waste coal and imports.Beginning in 2008, the residential and commercial consuming sector was replaced by the commercial and institutionalsector, which excludes the residential sector and small amounts of coal used in the transportation fuel sector (primarilytourist steam railroads). Commercial and institutional coal distribution is also obtained from the Form EIA-3, "QuarterlySurvey of Non-Electric Sector Coal Data."Previously, on the EIA-6A survey, it was not possible to identify refuse or waste coal,1 which was included in anthracite andbituminous distributions. Waste coal receipts are collected and separately identified on the EIA-923 survey and areespecially significant in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Quarterly Coal Distribution Report excludes waste coal andsmall volumes of synthetic coal that may have been distributed after all synthetic coal plants were close
