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(Wed, 21 Aug 2019) In 2008 EIA began collecting the commodity cost of all coal delivered to power plants with a combined nameplate capacity of 50 megawatts or greater on the Form EIA-923, “Power Plant Operations Report.” Since EIA already collected delivered cost for the same shipments, a proxy for transportation cost is be calculated by subtracting one from the other. The owners or operators of all applicable plants are required to provide to EIA on the Form EIA-923 the quantity (in tons), commodity cost, and total delivered cost (both in cents per million British thermal units), of all coal shipments by fuel supplier and by month. This recent update incorporates final EIA-923 data for 2018, and preliminary data for Q1 2019.