US states by wind electricity generation
Texas had the highest wind electricity generation of 41 states in 2016, at 57.53 TWh. Delaware had the lowest, at 0.01 TWh. The median was 2.14 TWh and the figure for the United States was 226.99 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
All states, 2016
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2016 | Change on 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 57.53 | +28.3% |
| 2 | Iowa | 20.07 | +12.3% |
| 3 | Oklahoma | 20.07 | +43% |
| 4 | Kansas | 14.11 | +28.3% |
| 5 | California | 13.51 | +10.5% |
| 6 | Illinois | 10.66 | -0.8% |
| 7 | Minnesota | 9.93 | +1.6% |
| 8 | Colorado | 9.42 | +26% |
| 9 | North Dakota | 8.17 | +25.6% |
| 10 | Washington | 8.04 | +13.7% |
| 11 | Oregon | 7.16 | +7.9% |
| 12 | Indiana | 4.9 | +8.5% |
| 13 | Michigan | 4.7 | -2.1% |
| 14 | Wyoming | 4.39 | +16.8% |
| 15 | New York | 3.94 | -0.9% |
| 16 | Nebraska | 3.8 | +19.4% |
| 17 | South Dakota | 3.71 | +48.7% |
| 18 | New Mexico | 3.61 | +72.5% |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | 3.48 | +3.7% |
| 20 | Idaho | 2.58 | +13.6% |
| 21 | Montana | 2.14 | +8.9% |
| 22 | Maine | 1.67 | +28.7% |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 1.52 | -4.7% |
| 24 | West Virginia | 1.43 | +4.1% |
| 25 | Ohio | 1.25 | +3.5% |
| 26 | Missouri | 1.12 | +8.6% |
| 27 | Utah | 0.82 | +31.4% |
| 28 | Hawaii | 0.64 | +4.3% |
| 29 | Arizona | 0.54 | +19.8% |
| 30 | Maryland | 0.53 | +21.3% |
| 31 | New Hampshire | 0.43 | +2.1% |
| 32 | Nevada | 0.34 | +11% |
| 33 | Vermont | 0.29 | -10.5% |
| 34 | Massachusetts | 0.22 | +0.7% |
| 35 | Alaska | 0.17 | +6% |
| 36 | Tennessee | 0.04 | -17.7% |
| 37 | Rhode Island | 0.03 | +163.6% |
| 38 | New Jersey | 0.02 | -3.2% |
| 39 | Connecticut | 0.01 | |
| 40 | North Carolina | 0.01 | |
| 41 | Delaware | 0.01 | +3.8% |
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About this ranking
Net electricity generated by onshore and offshore wind turbines at utility-scale plants (1 megawatt or more) in the year, in terawatt hours, as reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Form EIA-923.
United States and its states only. States without wind farms have no value.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. 3 states with data in other periods have no value for 2016 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, wind, 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 wind electricity generation?
Texas, with 57.53 TWh in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Which state has the lowest wind electricity generation?
Delaware, with 0.01 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, wind, all sectors, annual (EIA-923). Retrieved 2026-10-11. 3 states have no value for 2016 and are not ranked.