The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

EN3 - Direct energy consumption by primary energy source

In 2011, AEP consumed approximately 63 million tons of coal to produce electricity as well as 167 BCF of natural gas.

	2008	2009	2010	2011
Total coal delivered to AEP System plants (thousands of tons)	77,054	75,909	64,614	62,956
Total coal delivered to AEP System plants (in 100 millions of joules)	3,223,939,360	3,176,032,560	2,703,449,760	2,634,079,040
Average price per ton of purchased coal	$47.14	$49.54	$44.82	$46.76

For more information see AEP's 2011 10K

2012

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