Net electricity generation
Electricity generated in the year minus the electricity used by the power plants themselves, in terawatt hours (billion kilowatt hours), from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: for countries, its International Energy Statistics; for U.S. states, its survey of utility-scale power plants of 1 megawatt or more (Form EIA-923).
Countries and U.S. states. Generation is not consumption: exporters such as France and Norway generate more than they use. State figures leave out small-scale solar such as rooftop panels, which the country figure for the United States includes, so the states add up to about 2% less than the national total.
Key facts
- Net electricity generation in the United States was 4,392.6 TWh in 2024, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2024, at 10,161.5 TWh, and Western Sahara the lowest, at 0 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Published for 265 places, with figures from 1980 to 2025.
Rankings
Countries by net electricity generation, 2024
Places with data
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Laos
- Saint Lucia
- Lebanon
- Peru
- Afghanistan
- Uganda
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Maryland
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest net electricity generation? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"electricity_generation","level":"country"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=electricity_generation&level=country