Section 3: Electric Utilities

Releases by Electric Utilities

The electric utilities sector’s releases decreased by 49% from 2003 to 2013. This decrease is driven by a 73% decrease in on-site air releases from 2003 to 2013. Over this time period, on-site land disposal and off-site disposal or other releases remained relatively constant, while on-site surface water discharges increased by 13%. From 2012 to 2013, releases by electric utilities increased by 5% (28 million pounds). This increase was primarily driven by an increase in on-site land disposal.

This sector reported the second-largest total disposal or other releases of any industry sector in TRI for 2013, including the largest on-site air emissions, which represented over 25% of air emissions from all industries.

This page was published in January 2015 and uses the 2013 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2014.