Coal Transportation Rates and Trends in the United States, 1979-99, with Supplemental Data to 2001 Analysis Agenda Year: 2002 Analysis Theme: Energy Supply, Consumption, and Price Developments Sponsoring Office: Office of Coal Nuclear, Electricity & Alternate Fuels Contact(s): Richard Bonskowski Product Summary: The purpose of this report is to make available new statistics on the production, transportation, delivery, quality, and costs of coal to the electric power industry. By extension, this information has application to non-electric-power industries as well. It draws on 1998 and 1999 data from the confidential FERC Form-580, from the Surface Transportation Board analysis of annual rail waybill data, and from EIA coal distribution data to compile a cross-cutting report and 21-year time series on contract coal transportation rates, by mode and by origin/destination links. It analyzes variations related to contract size and duration, distance weighting (cost per ton/mile), and comparative heat content weighting (cost per million Btu delivered). The study also includes certain hard-to-obtain information such as average actual f.o.b. mine price of coal of known quality specifications, lengths of delivery contracts, and changes in the number of plants operating as utilities and the amount of coal purchased by utilities as generating facilities are transferred to private ownership under electricity deregulation. It will provide the only publicly available statistics on coal transportation costs and f.o.b. mine prices based on real (not extrapolated) data. The study will use the EIA’s Coal Transportation Rate Database and other statistical software to compile, analyze, extract, and report the averaged , releasable statistics for the report. The analyses will incorporate statistics on delivered coal costs (from FERC Form 423), average f.o.b. mine prices (from Form EIA-7A), and distribution statistics from Form EIA-6A to project apparent rate trends to 2001. The report will expand on the information developed for EIA’s Energy Policy Act Transportation Rate Study, the Final and Interim Reports on Coal Transportation (October 2000 and October 1995). Schedule: Start Date: Jul 2002 Completion Date: June 2003 If you are having technical problems with this site, please contact the EIA Webmaster at wmaster@eia.doe.gov Contacts: nancy.nicoletti@eia.doe.gov or ingrid.springer@eia.doe.gov Return to table of contents.