US primary energy consumption
ObservedTotal primary energy consumed in the United States per month, in quadrillion British thermal units.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Energy Information AdministrationfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- trillion Btu
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US primary energy consumption, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Total primary energy consumption, from the EIA Monthly Energy Review table 1.1 (Primary Energy Overview), series TETCBUS through the EIA API v2 total-energy route. Monthly, trillion Btu (the API publishes this series in trillion Btu; the printed MER table shows quadrillion). Includes fossil fuels, nuclear and renewable energy consumed by all sectors.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-primary-energy-consumption
Energy
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA Open Data API v2
- Series ID
TETCBUSlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.eia.gov
- License and attribution
- License review requiredU.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Last source update
- not recorded(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:03 UTC
- Parser version
- eia-v2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Recent months are estimates revised in later reviews.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 20,000 trillion Btu.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet