January 17, 2006: This release no longer contains tables on electric power use by industry. The December 15, 2005, release included results from the final survey of industrial electric power use conducted by the Federal Reserve Board. The rate of response to the voluntary survey had dropped significantly since the early 1990s, and coverage in 2004 was nearly 40 percent lower than at its peak in 1993. A notice seeking comment on the termination of the electric power survey was published in the Federal Register on September 29, 2005 by the end of the public comment period, November 28, 2005, no comments had been received. Although the indexes of electric power use will no longer be updated, the historical indexes will remain available on the historical data webpage for the G.17.
