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Table C10. Electric Operation and Maintenance Expenses for Major U.S. Publicly Owned Electric Utilities for All Respondents, 1996-2000
(Thousand Dollars)
Item 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Production Expenses          
  Steam Power Generation 5,419,816 4,280,651 4,154,784 4,089,777 3,773,659
  Nuclear Power Generation 1,346,986 1,292,076 1,297,301 1,281,934 915,094
  Hydraulic Power Generation 331,728 281,228 257,029 301,468 220,104
  Other Power Generation 603,072 404,647 387,740 297,283 266,310
  Purchased Power 16,472,277 13,586,261 13,025,282 12,611,890 13,252,290
  Other Production Expenses 224,543 181,891 175,413 152,692 188,484
    Total Production Expenses 24,398,423 20,026,753 19,297,549 18,735,044 18,615,939
  Transmission Expenses 982,388 906,048 952,060 907,159 656,198
  Distribution Expenses 1,646,364 1,520,629 1,564,191 1,650,139 1,395,105
  Customer Accounts Expenses 661,538 557,262 520,286 529,387 506,735
  Customer Service and Information Expenses 232,943 182,340 147,675 149,636 121,619
  Sales Expenses 81,561 62,897 59,672 59,078 29,145
  Administrative and General Expenses 2,096,356 1,961,987 1,909,662 1,950,437 1,683,838
    Total Electric Operation and Maintenance Expenses 30,099,573 25,217,917 24,451,096 23,980,879 23,008,579
Fuel Expenses in Operation          
  Steam Power Generation 4,149,972 2,870,430 2,673,865 2,649,538 2,177,924
  Nuclear Power Generation 314,810 333,449 315,962 316,701 229,664
  Other Power Generation 372,737 189,261 179,470 131,247 89,627
Number of Elec Dept Employees1          
  Regular Full-time2 68,707 68,634 59,105 67,888 69,698
  Part-time & Temporary2 2,646 2,631 2,541 2,736 2,222
        71,353 71,265 61,646 70,624 71,920


1/ Number of employees were not submitted by some publicly owned electric utilities because the number of electric utility employees could not be separated from the other employees within the municipal or the electric utility outsourced much of the work.
2/ Data reporting initiated in 1992. Note: Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.  The number of publicly owned electric utilities for end of period is 506 for 2000, 493 for 1999, 487 for 1998, 544 for 1997, and, 515 for 1996.
       Source: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-412, "Annual Report of Public Electric Utilities." Individual electric utilities report fiscal year data.  Appendix B shows the fiscal year for each electric utility.