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COAL MINI PROJECT!
Toni Langille:
Team 3
How is Coal used!
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The U.S. electric
power plant sector
reported 1,035.3
billion tons of coal
consumed during
2006. The average
delivered price of coal
to electric utilities
was $34.31 per ton.
Almost 92% of all
coal consumed in the
U.S. was in the
electric power sector,
the driving
force for all coal
consumption. Coal
consumption in the
U.S. electric power
sector decreased by
11.0 million tons from
2005. Kentucky’s
electric power
generation from coal
was 92.2% in 2006,
while 3.3% came
from petroleum coke,
2.6
Electric Pow er
Plants
120,000,000
Other
Industrial
100,000,000
Exports
Coke Plants
80,000,000
Residential /
Com m ercial
60,000,000
Unknow n
40,000,000
20,000,000
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US
Kentucky
http://www.kentuckycoal.org/documents/CoalFacts08.pdf
Eastern
Kentucky
Western
Kentucky
How Much Electricity Can 1 Ton Of
Coal Produce?
• "Each ton of coal consumed at
an electric power plant produces
about 2000 kilowatt hours of
electricity."
Energy Information Sheets. Energy Information Administration. July 1998: 3. (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/LunChen.shtml)
How Does Coal Drive Our
Economy!
• Coal fuels half of U.S. electricity needs and can jumpstart the nation’s economic engine during tough times
by fueling enormous economic growth: Coal produces
more than $1 trillion in Gross Domestic Product
(GDP), generating more than $360 billion in household
income and supporting nearly 7 million jobs. Each
percentage increase in electric usage fueled by coal is
matched roughly by a percentage increase in the GDP.
And while the U.S. has a trade deficit of some $600
billion in oil, it will have a trade surplus of $5 to $10
billion in coal.
http://www.coalcandothat.com/economic_growth.php