US states by coal electricity generation
Texas had the highest coal electricity generation of 47 states in 2021, at 88.82 TWh. New York had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 15.76 TWh and the figure for the United States was 898 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
All states, 2021
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2021 | Change on 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 88.82 | +12.7% |
| 2 | West Virginia | 59.67 | +18.8% |
| 3 | Missouri | 57.86 | +11.8% |
| 4 | Indiana | 54.45 | +14% |
| 5 | Kentucky | 49.86 | +14.3% |
| 6 | Ohio | 45.66 | +1.5% |
| 7 | Illinois | 43.3 | +38.6% |
| 8 | Michigan | 37.05 | +32.5% |
| 9 | Wyoming | 32.04 | -4% |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | 29.3 | +24.9% |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 27.44 | +15.5% |
| 12 | Alabama | 26.9 | +23.8% |
| 13 | Utah | 26.38 | +15.7% |
| 14 | North Dakota | 24.4 | -0.4% |
| 15 | Colorado | 23.6 | +21.2% |
| 16 | Iowa | 22.11 | +56.3% |
| 17 | Arkansas | 21.42 | +38.9% |
| 18 | North Carolina | 20.4 | -1.9% |
| 19 | Kansas | 19.4 | +14.4% |
| 20 | Georgia | 19.08 | +37.1% |
| 21 | Nebraska | 18.93 | +0.8% |
| 22 | Florida | 18.38 | +10.8% |
| 23 | Tennessee | 18.26 | +28.2% |
| 24 | Minnesota | 15.76 | +12.3% |
| 25 | South Carolina | 15.19 | +21.9% |
| 26 | Arizona | 14.3 | +4% |
| 27 | New Mexico | 12.54 | -2% |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 11.25 | +89.4% |
| 29 | Montana | 10.88 | +28.1% |
| 30 | Louisiana | 7.87 | +100.9% |
| 31 | Mississippi | 5.53 | +20.4% |
| 32 | Maryland | 5.17 | +54% |
| 33 | Virginia | 3.25 | -13.7% |
| 34 | Washington | 3.13 | -39.4% |
| 35 | Nevada | 2.75 | +40.9% |
| 36 | South Dakota | 1.64 | -0.6% |
| 37 | Hawaii | 1.08 | -6.9% |
| 38 | New Jersey | 1.03 | +12% |
| 39 | Alaska | 0.75 | +4.3% |
| 40 | California | 0.29 | +1.3% |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 0.28 | +121.2% |
| 42 | Delaware | 0.28 | +170.6% |
| 43 | Connecticut | 0.24 | +1,382.1% |
| 44 | Maine | 0.05 | -9.9% |
| 45 | Idaho | 0.02 | -19.6% |
| 46 | Massachusetts | 0 | |
| 46 | New York | 0 | -100% |
Other periods
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. 1 states with data in other periods have no value for 2021 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 88.82 TWh in 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Which state has the lowest coal electricity generation?
New York, with 0 TWh in 2021.
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. 1 states have no value for 2021 and are not ranked.