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Own Use

Own use contains the primary and secondary energy consumed by transformation industries for heating, pumping, traction, and lighting purposes. These are shown as negative figures. Included here are, for example, the coal mines' own use of energy, power plants' own consumption (which includes net electricity consumed for pumped storage), and energy used for oil and gas extraction.

Note: energy use in refineries is included in petroleum refineries.