|
Leading Energy Producers & Consumers |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Texas and Alaska each account for large shares of U.S. crude oil production, but even they are surpassed by the Federal offshore areas in the Gulf of Mexico and California, which produces roughly one-fourth of the U.S. total.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Texas has vast proved reserves of natural gas – about one-fourth of the Nation’s total and roughly twice as much as the proved reserves found in Wyoming, the State with the next highest amount. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wyoming leads the Nation in coal production; it typically produces more coal than the combined production of the next four top coal-producers – West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Montana. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
California generates more electricity from geothermal, solar, and wind energy sources combined than any other State, and Washington leads the Nation in hydroelectric power generation and in generation from all renewables (including hydroelectric) combined. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Illinois and Pennsylvania rely to a great extent on nuclear power for electricity generation and, together, they account for approximately one-fifth of the Nation’s nuclear power generation. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recent Updates |
|
|
|
|
|
December 18, 2008
Updated the following electricity statistics to September 2008:
• Price of electricity sold to the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors
• Price of coal delivered to the electric power sector
• Net electricity generation by fuel
• Fuel stocks at electric power producers
• Consumption for electricity generation by fuel
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sign up for State Energy Emails |
|
|
|
|