US states by coal electricity generation, 2025
Texas had the highest coal electricity generation of 46 states in 2025, at 68.89 TWh. New York had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 14.08 TWh and the figure for the United States was 737.15 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
All states, 2025
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2025 | Change on 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Provisional | 68.89 | +5.1% |
| 2 | Indiana Provisional | 49.31 | +21.7% |
| 3 | Kentucky Provisional | 48.69 | +8.6% |
| 4 | West Virginia Provisional | 46.64 | +8.2% |
| 5 | Missouri Provisional | 45.94 | +18.3% |
| 6 | Ohio Provisional | 35.86 | +19.2% |
| 7 | Illinois Provisional | 30.9 | +14.6% |
| 8 | Michigan Provisional | 29.31 | +13.9% |
| 9 | Wyoming Provisional | 27.02 | +10.8% |
| 10 | Wisconsin Provisional | 23.35 | +12.5% |
| 11 | North Dakota Provisional | 22.58 | -2.6% |
| 12 | Alabama Provisional | 21.66 | +3.5% |
| 13 | Arkansas Provisional | 20.38 | +30.1% |
| 14 | Georgia Provisional | 20.02 | +12.3% |
| 15 | Kansas Provisional | 19.34 | +47.9% |
| 16 | Iowa Provisional | 19.11 | +32.1% |
| 17 | Nebraska Provisional | 18.33 | +12.1% |
| 18 | South Carolina Provisional | 18.18 | +7.9% |
| 19 | Tennessee Provisional | 18.03 | +3.4% |
| 20 | Utah Provisional | 18.01 | +12.8% |
| 21 | North Carolina Provisional | 17.9 | +4.8% |
| 22 | Pennsylvania Provisional | 17.59 | +34.8% |
| 23 | Minnesota Provisional | 14.14 | +23.7% |
| 24 | Colorado Provisional | 14.02 | -14.9% |
| 25 | Florida Provisional | 10.18 | +29.8% |
| 26 | Montana Provisional | 10.02 | +2.4% |
| 27 | Oklahoma Provisional | 9.41 | +53.4% |
| 28 | Arizona Provisional | 9.22 | -6.1% |
| 29 | New Mexico Provisional | 8.18 | -3% |
| 30 | Louisiana Provisional | 5.53 | +49.5% |
| 31 | Mississippi Provisional | 4.18 | +25.4% |
| 32 | Virginia Provisional | 3.61 | +82.9% |
| 33 | Washington Provisional | 3.16 | +11% |
| 34 | Nevada Provisional | 2.59 | +11.4% |
| 35 | Maryland Provisional | 2.29 | -7% |
| 36 | South Dakota Provisional | 2.03 | +29.7% |
| 37 | Alaska Provisional | 0.79 | +5% |
| 38 | Delaware Provisional | 0.25 | +75.6% |
| 39 | New Hampshire Provisional | 0.24 | +6.7% |
| 40 | California Provisional | 0.23 | -4.6% |
| 41 | Maine Provisional | 0.03 | +8.2% |
| 42 | Connecticut Provisional | 0 | |
| 42 | Idaho Provisional | 0 | |
| 42 | Massachusetts Provisional | 0 | |
| 42 | New Jersey Provisional | 0 | |
| 42 | New York Provisional | 0 |
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About this ranking
Net electricity generated from coal at utility-scale plants (1 megawatt or more) in the year, in terawatt hours: bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, anthracite, waste and refined coal, as reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Form EIA-923.
United States and its states only. Net generation can be slightly negative when idle plants use more electricity than they produce, as in Connecticut in 2020.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. 2 states with data in other periods have no value for 2025 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Electricity data browser: net generation, all coal products, all sectors, annual (EIA-923). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.Use this data in your AI agent
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Which state has the highest coal electricity generation?
Texas, with 68.89 TWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Which state has the lowest coal electricity generation?
New York, with 0 TWh in 2025.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity data browser: net generation, all coal products, all sectors, annual (EIA-923). Retrieved 2026-10-11. 2 states have no value for 2025 and are not ranked.