Show I CONSUMPTION OF FUEI FUELS S BY l POWER o PLANTS TOI TO I PRODUCE I UCE ELECTRICITY The total amount of electricity at utility public plants in 1926 was I 73 kilowatt hours according according ac ac- cording to a statement just I made public by the Geological Survey atthe of at the Department of the Interior Of this total billion kilowatt hours or per cent was generated bythe by bythe bythe the use of fuels and the remainder by the use of water po power er Of the billion kilowatt-hours kilowatt produced ed by the use of fuels billion or 90 per cent was generated by the I use of fuel oil all gas and wood Coal Is thus by far the Ithe source of I power generated at public utility I power plants In 1926 1026 the power I produced from Crom coal was percent per percent percent cent of of all the power generated from water power per cent I from oil 31 1 per cent from gas 33 per cent and from wood 04 percent per percent percent cent The use of fuel oil in generating generating gen gen- electricity has has declined since I 1924 when it reached its maximum I I and and andl l less ss' ss fuel oil was used In 1926 I Ifor I for th this s 's purpose s than in any other I I year since 1918 1913 Indeed in 1926 the amount of fuel oil oU consumed b by utility public-utility power power plants was anI only I 57 per cent of that used in 1924 I The avera average e rate of of consumption of the different kinds of fuel in generating generating generating gen- gen electricity in the United II I Stat States were las as follows Coal 1 94 I I j pounds per kIlowatt kilowatt hour our oil I kilowatt-hours kilowatt per barrel gas 22 13 3 cubic feet per kilowatt The The 1 f best fuel for these different I fuels were about as follows Coal i i 09 pound per kilowatt hour oil i kilowatt-hours kilowatt per barrel gas i c I 13 cubic feet per kilowatt hour As J I II I these are roughly on one half half the aver aver average I age Sage rates the consumption of fuel fast by electric public utility power plants would be reduced one half if t tall all utility public-utility power plants produced pro 1 electricity at the best fuel rates and the attainment of this degree degree degree de de- gree of efficiency would have conserved conserved con can t served more than tons of coal in 1926 representing a value of ti about j a |