Coal Consumption
Nebraska used 11,373 thousand (11.4 million) short tons of coal in 2023, a decrease of 11.9 percent from 2022. Figure 1 shows that coal used for electricity generation accounted for nearly all (94.1 percent) of the consumption with 5.9 percent consumed in the industrial sector. Any coal consumption in the commercial, transportation, and residential sectors was small enough to round to zero in this table.
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| 2020 - 2023 | 64.71 KB |
| 2000 - 2019 | 132.21 KB |
| 1980 - 1999 | 140.05 KB |
| 1960 - 1979 | 127.99 KB |
Sources: State Energy Data Report. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC. Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, Lincoln, NE.
This report was updated on February 16, 2026.
Typically, there is one year between updates.