US states by net electricity generation
Texas had the highest net electricity generation of 51 states in 2016, at 454 TWh. District of Columbia had the lowest, at 0.1 TWh. The median was 60.4 TWh and the figure for the United States was 4,096.4 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
All states, 2016
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2016 | Change on 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 454 | +0.9% |
| 2 | Florida | 238.3 | +0.4% |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | 215 | +0.2% |
| 4 | California | 197 | +0.1% |
| 5 | Illinois | 187.3 | -3.4% |
| 6 | Alabama | 142.4 | -6.6% |
| 7 | New York | 134.4 | -3% |
| 8 | Georgia | 133.4 | +3.5% |
| 9 | North Carolina | 130.8 | +1.9% |
| 10 | Ohio | 119.9 | -2.6% |
| 11 | Washington | 114.1 | +4.4% |
| 12 | Michigan | 112.1 | -0.8% |
| 13 | Arizona | 108.8 | -3.9% |
| 14 | Louisiana | 107.3 | -0.5% |
| 15 | Indiana | 101.8 | -2.2% |
| 16 | South Carolina | 97 | +0.5% |
| 17 | Virginia | 92.6 | +9.6% |
| 18 | Kentucky | 80.3 | -3.9% |
| 19 | Tennessee | 79.3 | +5.5% |
| 20 | Oklahoma | 78.7 | +3.3% |
| 21 | Missouri | 78.6 | -6% |
| 22 | New Jersey | 77.6 | +4% |
| 23 | West Virginia | 75.9 | +5% |
| 24 | Wisconsin | 65 | -2.1% |
| 25 | Mississippi | 62.9 | -2.9% |
| 26 | Arkansas | 60.4 | +8.8% |
| 27 | Oregon | 60.2 | +4% |
| 28 | Minnesota | 59.5 | +4.4% |
| 29 | Colorado | 54.4 | +3.9% |
| 30 | Iowa | 54.4 | -4% |
| 31 | Kansas | 47.6 | +4.6% |
| 32 | Wyoming | 46.7 | -4.7% |
| 33 | Nevada | 39.8 | +1.9% |
| 34 | Utah | 38.1 | -9.1% |
| 35 | North Dakota | 37.9 | +1.9% |
| 36 | Maryland | 37.2 | +2.2% |
| 37 | Nebraska | 36.5 | -8.4% |
| 38 | Connecticut | 36.5 | -2.6% |
| 39 | New Mexico | 32.9 | +0.6% |
| 40 | Massachusetts | 32 | -0.4% |
| 41 | Montana | 27.8 | -5.2% |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 19.3 | -3.7% |
| 43 | Idaho | 15.7 | -0% |
| 44 | South Dakota | 11.5 | +19.6% |
| 45 | Maine | 11.5 | -1.9% |
| 46 | Hawaii | 9.9 | -1.7% |
| 47 | Delaware | 8.7 | +11.8% |
| 48 | Rhode Island | 6.6 | -5.4% |
| 49 | Alaska | 6.3 | +0.8% |
| 50 | Vermont | 1.9 | -3.6% |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 0.1 | +42.3% |
Other periods
About this ranking
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.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Electricity data browser: net generation, all fuels, all sectors, utility-scale plants, 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 net electricity generation?
Texas, with 454 TWh in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Which state has the lowest net electricity generation?
District of Columbia, with 0.1 TWh in 2016.
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 fuels, all sectors, utility-scale plants, annual (EIA-923). Retrieved 2026-10-11.