Your grid, right now
The United States is second in the world for how much electricity it makes.
4,520 TWh a year.
Total output
4,520TWh
2nd of 201 in the world
Clean share
43%
in 2025
Per person
13,015kWh
a year
United States · mix since 2000
20002025
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Gas overtook coal on the United States' grid in 2016. Today gas supplies 40% and coal 16%.
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Canada is over the United States' border, and 77% of its electricity is clean against 43%.
Canada uses far more electricity per person than countries at its income level.
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