US electricity generation in 2019

In 2019, the USA generated 4.13 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity. This graphic uses figures from the US Energy Information Administration to show the different energy sources that contributed to this electricity production. More than half of the electricity (62.6 per cent) came from fossil fuels, including natural gas (38.4 per cent) and coal (23.4 per cent) as the largest sources. Nuclear energy comes third with 19.6 per cent, closely followed by renewables, which generated 17.6 per cent of utility-scale electricity in that year.