According to this 357-page document from the Energy Information Administration, "the existing capacity of U.S. electric utilities totaled 686,692 megawatts (Table 1), a net change of -25,197 megawatts (-3.5 percent) from the total reported as of January 1, 1998." Forty-four percent of the United States's existing capacity was coal-fired, gas-fired capacity represented eighteen percent, while...

In 2002, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released this comprehensive report of electric generating plant capacity for the year 2000. Over 300 pages in length, the document contains detailed discussions, tables, and charts of the country's electric utilities. There is a large amount of capacity and usage data that is broken down into primary energy source categories, including coal,...

The EIA has produced a new booklet titled The Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry to educate the public about what is happening in the electric power industry. The booklet covers the topics of generating components, wholesale and retail electric markets, reasons for deregulation, steps to promote competition, and utilities' strategies to prepare for competition.